Cut-flower exports, female labor, and community participation in Highland Ecuador

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 18-42

  Korovkin, Tanya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; RURAL ECONOMY; SOCIAL IMPACT; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0042243635     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X03030004005     Document Type: Article

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