Toward an understanding of the spatiality of social movements: Labor organizing at a private university in Los Angeles

Social Problems

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 374-394

  Wilton, Robert D ^a   Cranford, Cynthia ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0036669741     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2002.49.3.374     Document Type: Article

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