Childcare, choice and class practices: Middle-class parents and their children

Childcare, Choice and Class Practices: Middle-Class Parents and their Children

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-189

  Vincent, Carol ^a   Ball, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203012413     Document Type: Book

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