Productivity and trade unions in British manufacturing industry 1973-85

Applied Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1403-1409

  Denny, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY; MANUFACTURING; TRADE UNION;

UK;

EID: 0031418751     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036849700000030     Document Type: Article

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