Nursebots to the rescue? Immigration, automation, and care

Globalizations

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 349-360

  Folbre, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 49849099801     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747730600870217     Document Type: Article

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