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From Correspondence to Contradiction and Change: Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited

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Swartz, D.L. From Correspondence to Contradiction and Change: Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited. Sociological Forum 18, 167–186 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022663030618

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