'Education is not for sale': Teachers' unions multi-scalar struggles against liberalizing the education sector

Globalization, Knowledge and Labour: Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 80-102

  Verger, Antoni ^a   Novelli, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203870686     Document Type: Chapter

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