“Por Necesidad” - Transnational labor movements, informality and wage determination: An exploratory study of maids on the U.S.-Mexican border

Journal of Borderlands Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-82

  Pisani, Michael J ^a   Yoskowitz, David W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860704588     PISSN: 08865655     EISSN: 21591229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2001.9695566     Document Type: Article

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