When men do women's work: Structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, Ghana

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 539-563

  Overa, Ragnhild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL CRISIS; GENDER RELATIONS; INFORMAL SECTOR; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ACCRA; AFRICA; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 36349026363     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X0700287X     Document Type: Article

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