Markets not states?: The weakness of state social provision for Breadwinning Men in the United States

Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 217-244

  Orloff, Ann Shola ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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