Home care restructuring at work: The impact of policy transformation on women’s labor

Geographies of Women's Health: Place, Diversity and Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 107-126

  Williams, Allison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203186022-14     Document Type: Chapter

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