Informal support networks and the maintenance of low-wage jobs

Laboring Below The Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-203

  Henly, Julia R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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