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Some Useful Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2025

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The following is a list of learning and research resources on topics that are central to this themed section, namely the male-breadwinner and adult worker models, and their alternatives; intersectionality; the views of employers and workplace culture; the role and influence of informal care; and the tendency toward dualisation.

Keywords

Dualisationemployer views and workplace cultureintersectionalityinformal caremale-breadwinner, adult worker models and alternatives

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Some Useful Sources
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 24 , Issue 1: THEMED SECTION: Language and Linguistic Disadvantage in Diversifying and Restructuring Welfare States , January 2025, pp. 16 - 17
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References

Critiques of the male-breadwinner and adult worker models, and alternatives to them

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Intersectionality

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Employer views and workplace culture

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Informal care

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Dualisation

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