Diversity as resistance and recuperation: Critical theory, post-structuralist perspectives and workplace diversity

Handbook of Workplace Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 145-166

  Jones, Deborah ^a   Stablein, Ralph ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781848608092.n7     Document Type: Chapter

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