Women of steel: Constructing and contesting new gendered geographies of work in the Australian steel industry

Antipode

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-134

  Tonkin, Liza ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LABOR RELATIONS; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; WOLLONGONG;

EID: 0034054835     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8330.00124     Document Type: Article

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