Unemployment, Informalization and Trade Union Decline in Greece: Questioning Analytical and Prescriptive Orthodoxies

South European Society and Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 60-89

  Seferiades, Seraphim ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; TRADE UNION; UNEMPLOYMENT;

GREECE;

EID: 0033504857     PISSN: 13608746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13608740408539580     Document Type: Article

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