Gender and inequality in the global labor force

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2003, Pages 41-62

  Mills, Mary Beth ^a  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrialization; Informal sector; Masculinity and femininity; Transnational mobility; Unions and labor organizing

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER RELATIONS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GLOBALIZATION; LABOR MOBILITY;

EID: 2442484546     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093107     Document Type: Article

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