Notes on emerging collective action: ethnic-trade guilds among Japanese Americans in the gardening industry

International Migration Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 374-400

  Tsukashima, Ronald Tadao ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; ETHNIC GROUP; HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; JAPANESE PEOPLE; TRADE ORGANISATION;

USA;

EID: 0031665328     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2547188     Document Type: Article

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