Intensity of management resistance: Understanding the decline of Unionization in the Private Sector

The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 292-316

  Kleiner, Morris M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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