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“Compañero, Respect Your Vocation!”: Improvisations for a Workaday Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Vicky Unruh
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Special Topic: Work Coordinated by Vicky Unruh
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PMLA , Volume 127 , Issue 4: Special Topic Work , October 2012, pp. 731 - 750
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Copyright © 2012 by The Modern Language Association of America

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