On difference and capital: Gender and the globalization of production

Signs

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 203-226

  Bair, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INTERNATIONALITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 77958587509     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652912     Document Type: Article

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