Globalization and cross-border labor organizing: The Guatemalan Maquiladora Industry and the Phillips Van Heusen Workers' Movement

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 108-128

  Armbruster Sandoval, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; LABOR RELATIONS; MAQUILADORA; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

GUATEMALA;

EID: 0033249635     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X9902600206     Document Type: Article

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