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Disability, sameness, and equality: able-bodied managers and employees discussing diversity in a Scandinavian context

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Language: English
Page range: 129 - 139
Submitted on: Oct 30, 2015
Accepted on: Aug 10, 2016
Published on: Aug 2, 2017
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2017 Nanna Mik-Meyer, published by Stockholm University Press
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