Are mandated health and safety committees substitutes for or supplements to labor unions?

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 339-360

  Weil, David ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/001979399905200301     Document Type: Article

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