'Spoilt for Choice': the working classes and educational markets

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-101

  Reay, Diane ^b   Ball, Stephen J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031515648     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305498970230108     Document Type: Article

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