Retrainers as Labor Market Brokers: Constructing Networks and Narratives in the Detroit Area

Social Problems

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-87

  Indergaard, Michael ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3097162     Document Type: Article

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