The Role of Employers in Split Labor Markets: An Event-Structure Analysis of Racial Conflict and AFL Organizing, 1917-1919

Social Forces

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 653-681

  Brown, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/sf/79.2.653     Document Type: Article

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