Visible hands - invisible women: Garment production in Turkey

Feminist Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-32

  Dedeoǧlu, Saniye ^a  

^a Mu la University   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Employment; Gender inequality; Gender relations; Kinship

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251553737     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.530606     Document Type: Article

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