'No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position': Age as a factor defining older women's experience of labour market participation

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 655-671

  Moore, Sian ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Class discrimination; Gender; Intersectionality; Older workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749116431     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017009344871     Document Type: Article

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