Gender Matters from School to WorkGaskell (social and educational studies, U. of British Columbia) explores the way young men and women experience and account for the relations between school and work, and analyzes the way schooling and work have been organized by historical and continuing patterns of gender and class inequality. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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School Work and Gender | 16 |
Course Streaming in the School | 36 |
Making the Transition from School to Work | 53 |
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