Taking on the CosmoCorps? Experiments in transnational labor organization

Economic Geography

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-130

  Wills, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN WORK COUNCIL; GLOBALISATION; INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; LABOUR ORGANISATION; TRADE UNION; TRANSNATIONAL COPORATION;

UK;

EID: 0031692316     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.1998.tb00108.x     Document Type: Article

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