Tenuous relationships: Exploitation, emotion, and racial ethnic significance in paid child care work

Gender and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 758-780

  Uttal, Lynet ^a   Tuominen, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033235525     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089124399013006005     Document Type: Article

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