"This isn't paradise - I work here": Global restructuring, the tourism industry, and women workers in Caribbean Costa Rica

Gender and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 778-798

  Vandegrift, Darcie ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Economy; International transnational relations; Migration; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949122475     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243208324999     Document Type: Review

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