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Wolpe, Harold

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Personal name headingWolpe, Harold
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Birth date1926-01-14
Death date1996-01-19
Place of birthJohannesburg (South Africa)
AffiliationUniversity of Essex
Education Policy Unit (Bellville, South Africa)
Profession or occupationCollege teachers
Found inHis Capitalism and cheap ... 1974?: t.p. (Harold Wolpe)
South African History Online WWW site, viewed October 4, 2017 (Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family; graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952 from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. Moved to England. He became a Nuffield Foundation Sociological Scholar at the London School of Economics in 1964-65 before joining the University of Bradford and North London Polytechnic (now the University of North London). After that he joined the Sociology Department of the University of Essex. In 1990 left the University of Essex and returned to South Africa. On his return, became the Director of the Education Policy Unit (EPU) at the University of the Western Cape and chair of the forum which coordinated the work of five such EPUs at national level. Wolpe passed away on 19 January 1996 aged 70)
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