United by gender or divided by class? Women's work orientations and labour market behaviour

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 394-412

  James, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes to work; Class; Preference theory

Indexed keywords

CLASS; LABOR MARKET; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS STATUS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OXFORD; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 45249085937     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: 14680432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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