The role of ethnicity in shaping the domestic employment sector in Britain

Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 131-144

  Cox, Rosie ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84908955051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203452509     Document Type: Chapter

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