Organizational Technology as Institutionalized Ideology: Case Management Practices in Welfare-to-Work Programs

Administration in Social Work

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-19

  Weaver, Dale ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0039845739     PISSN: 03643107     EISSN: 15444376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J147v24n01_01     Document Type: Article

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