Digitising inequality: The cul-de-sac of women's work in European services

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 160-176

  Webster, Juliet ^a  

^a European Union   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERVICE SECTOR; SKILLED LABOR; TRAINING; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 4544265850     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2004.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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