Assessing partnership approaches to lif elong learning: 'A new and modern role for trade unions'?

Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 40-54

  Rainbird, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203694381     Document Type: Chapter

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