Rurality and labor process autonomy: The question of subsumption in the waged labor of domestic service

Cultural Dynamics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-31

  Hairong, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic service; Postsocialism; Rural urban relations; Subsumption; Wage labor

Indexed keywords

LABOR;

EID: 33645739615     PISSN: 09213740     EISSN: 14617048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0921374006063412     Document Type: Article

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