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Giving Employers What They Want? New Vocationalism in Alberta

Wolfgang Lehmann Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, 5-21 HM Tory Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H4, Canada
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Alison Taylor Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, 5-21 HM Tory Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H4, Canada
Pages 45-67 | Published online: 03 Aug 2010

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