Surveying the "post-industrial" landscape: Information technologies and labour market polarization in Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-53

  Hughes, Karen D ^a   Lowe, Graham S ^a  

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EID: 0034134545     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2000.tb00585.x     Document Type: Article

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