Wage wars: Institutional politics, WPA wages, and the struggle for U.S. social policy

American Sociological Review

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 506-528

  Amenta, E ^a   Halfmann, D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL POLICY; WAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033794017     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657380     Document Type: Article

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