Working the system: Re-thinking the institutionally organized role of mothers and the reduction of "Risk" in child protection work

Social Problems

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 352-370

  Brown, Debra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child protection; Institutional ethnography; Mothering; Risk; Unpaid labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748258865     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2006.53.3.352     Document Type: Article

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