Global care crisis: A problem of capital, care chain, or commons?

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 405-425

  Isaksen, Lise Widding ^a   Devi, Sambasivan Uma ^b   Hochschild, Arlie Russell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Commons; Global care; Migration; Social capital; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749089286     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764208323513     Document Type: Article

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