Globalization and the increase in transnational care work: The flip side

Globalizations

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-315

  Pyle, Jean L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

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EID: 38049049288     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747730600869995     Document Type: Article

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