Retail jobs in comparative perspective

Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 211-268

  Carré, Françoise ^a,b,c   Tilly, Chris ^c   Van Klaveren, Maarten ^d   Voss Dahm, Dorothea ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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