Regulating labour, transforming human capital and promoting local economic growth: The case o f the UK skillcentres initiative

Promoting Local Growth: Process, Practice and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 347-364

  Leonard, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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