Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric

Working Futures?: Disabled People, Policy and Social Inclusion

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 219-231

  Goodley, Dan ^a   Norouzi, Ghashem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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