All aboard? Women working the spaces of gentrification in Toronto's Junction

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 510-527

  Kern, Leslie ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

gender; gentrification; immaterial labour; precarity; Toronto; work

Indexed keywords

GENDER; GENTRIFICATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; WOMENS STATUS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84880280330     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2012.701201     Document Type: Article

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