Lifelong learning or re-training for life: Scapegoating the worker

Studies in the Education of Adults

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 140-155

  Cruikshank, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

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EID: 27944459145     PISSN: 02660830     EISSN: 14789833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2002.11661467     Document Type: Article

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