Who rides the glass escalator? Gender, race and nationality in the national nursing assistant study

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 699-715

  Price Glynn, Kim ^a   Rakovski, Carter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

caring labour; glass escalator; intersectional analysis; nursing assistants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867339679     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017012451634     Document Type: Article

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