The consequences of caring: Skills, regulation and reward among early years workers

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 422-441

  Findlay, Patricia ^a   Findlay, Jeanette ^b   Stewart, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Independent Researcher   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Care work; Early years education; Gender inequality; Pay and grading; Skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349441046     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017009337057     Document Type: Article

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