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Yard games: the social, symbolic, and economic logic of exchange in a scrap metal yard in Chicago

Elise Martel

Economic Sociology of Work

ISBN: 978-1-84855-368-2, eISBN: 978-1-84855-369-9

ISSN: 0277-2833

Publication date: 19 May 2009

Abstract

Originality/Value of paper – By focusing on exchange-in-interaction and articulating how economic transactions are culturally embedded, this research contributes to scholarship in the sociologies of work and economies, and provides a glimpse into an understudied work world.

Citation

Martel, E. (2009), "Yard games: the social, symbolic, and economic logic of exchange in a scrap metal yard in Chicago", Bandelj, N. (Ed.) Economic Sociology of Work (Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 18), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 233-260. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-2833(2009)0000018011

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