“Where Teachers Can Make a Livable Wage”: Organizing to Address Gender and Racial Inequalities in Paid Child Care Work

Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 193-206

  Tuominen, Mary C ^a  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315811208-20     Document Type: Chapter

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