Aggregating dispersed workers: Union organizing in the "care" industries

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 969-979

  Rhee, Nari ^a   Zabin, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Care labor; Childcare; Developmental disabilities; Homecare; Nonstandard work; Privatization; Social movement unionism; United States

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; LABOR MARKET; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC SERVICE; SELF EMPLOYMENT; SERVICE SECTOR; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; WAGE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450251915     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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