The contradictions and intersections of class and gender in a global city: Placing working women's lives on the research agenda

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 441-461

  McDowell, Linda ^a   Perrons, Diane ^b   Fagan, Colette ^c   Ray, Kath ^d   Ward, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR PARTICIPATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WORLD CITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 15944386698     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3781     Document Type: Article

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