Children's Families

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 109-125

  Scott, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's families; Children's work; Interlinked lives; Life course research; Social actors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889441544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999004.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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