Women and consciousness in the "learning organization": Emancipation or exploitation?

Adult Education Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 228-241

  Mojab, Shahrzad ^a   Gorman, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feminism; Learning organization; Marxism; Women and learning; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644234159     PISSN: 07417136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741713603254026     Document Type: Review

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