Playing Happy Families: Rules and relationships in au pair employing households in London, England

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 333-344

  Cox, Rosie ^a   Narula, Rekha ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY STRUCTURE; KINSHIP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0347025970     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0966369032000153304     Document Type: Article

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