Lost ways of organizing: Reviving the AFL's direct affiliate strategy

Industrial Relations

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 278-301

  Cobble, Dorothy Sue ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040219120     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0019-8676.541997017     Document Type: Article

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