Getting Jobs and Building Careers: Reproducing Inequality in State-Sponsored Job Search Organizations

Research in the Sociology of Work

Volumn 16, Issue , 2006, Pages 375-402

  Smith, Vicki ^a   Kohler Flynn, Heather ^a   Isler, Jonathan ^a  

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EID: 33645921001     PISSN: 02772833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-2833(06)16014-8     Document Type: Review

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