Maria's burden: Contract cleaning and the crisis of social reproduction in post-apartheid South Africa

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Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 462-485

  Bezuidenhout, Andries ^a   Fakier, Khayaat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APARTHEID; NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL WORK; WAGE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33748321082     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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