The impact of restructuring in further education colleges

Employee Relations

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 465-479

  Beale, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colleges; Employees involvement; Further education; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986014472     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450410550455     Document Type: Article

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