'Marriage' to capital: The fallback positions of Fiji's women garment workers

Development in Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 495-507

  Harrington, Christy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARMENT INDUSTRY; HUMAN CAPITAL; WAGE DETERMINATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 3042624356     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09614520410001686098     Document Type: Article

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