Organizing for the future: Labour's renewal strategies, popular education and radical history

Studies in Continuing Education

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-48

  Brown, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 33244456172     PISSN: 0158037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1745     Document Type: Article

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