Equal opportunities as a productive factor

Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 236-262

  Rubery, Jill ^a   Humphries, Jane ^b   Fagan, Colette ^c   Grimshaw, Damian ^a   Smith, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203987179-18     Document Type: Chapter

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