Striking lives: Multiple narratives of South Asian women's employment, identity and protest in the UK

Ethnicities

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 754-775

  Anitha, Sundari ^a   Pearson, Ruth ^b   McDowell, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

industrial militancy; intersectionality; migrant women and work; South Asian women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870163179     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796811435316     Document Type: Article

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