Ladder of opportunity or engine of inequality?

Political Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 232-236

  Lister, Ruth ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33845626128     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00799.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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11. See also its final report, Narrowing the Gap (2006).
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25. see also Polly Toynbee, Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain, London, Bloomsbury, 2003.
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