Recent research on workplace learning and its implications for national skills policies across the OECD

Beyond Skill: Institutions, Organisations and Human Capability

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-126

  Keep, Ewart ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230291270_6     Document Type: Chapter

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