The education world is not flat neoliberalism's global project and teacher unions' transnational resistance

The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-72

  Kuehn, Larry ^a  

^a British Columbia Teachers' Federation ^*  (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230611702     Document Type: Chapter

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