Community unionism in canada and labor's (re)organization of space

Antipode

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages

  Tufts, Steven ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARMENT INDUSTRY; LABOUR ORGANISATION; TRADE UNION;

CANADA;

EID: 0031685490     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8330.00076     Document Type: Article

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