Journal Article10.1353/JSH/14.3.407
Educating for Clerical Work: The Nineteenth-Century Private Commencal School
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About: This article is published in Journal of Social History. The article was published on 01 Mar 1981. The article focuses on the topics: Work (electrical).
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