Creating community: Latina nannies in a west Los Angeles park

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-292

  Armenta, Amada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic work; Labor; Latina o immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350025287     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-009-9129-1     Document Type: Article

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