Time pressed and time poor: Unpaid household work in Guatemala

Feminist Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 79-112

  Gammage, Sarah ^a  

^a The International Labour Office   (Chile)

Author keywords

Poverty; Time poverty; Time use; Unpaid household work

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956502776     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.498571     Document Type: Article

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