Liberalisation and transformations in India's informal economy: Female breadwinners in working-class households in Chennai

The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and South Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 267-290

  Kapadia, Karin ^a  

^a Queen Elizabeth House   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203861332     Document Type: Chapter

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