Time for Housework and Time for ‘Oshigoto’: Japanese housewives in a network business

Time & Society

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-232

  Yuasa, Masae ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

employment; housewives; Japanese women; Multi level Marketing; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748798871     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X06066951     Document Type: Article

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