Job change and workplace learning in the public sector: The significance of new technology for unskilled work

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 224-235

  Munro, Anne ^a   Rainbird, Helen ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0036867842     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-005X.00106     Document Type: Article

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