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Bridging the Service Divide: Dual Labor Niches and Embedded Opportunities in Restaurant Work
Eli R. Wilson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 115-127; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.07
Eli R. Wilson
aPhD from the University of California–Los Angeles and is visiting scholar at UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

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Eli R. Wilson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jan 2018, 4 (1) 115-127; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.07
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