'Keeping it in the family': Work, education and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists

Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 73-99

  de Neve, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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