Explaining wage inequality in telecommunications services: Customer segmentation, human resource practices, and union decline

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 54, Issue 2 PART A, 2001, Pages 425-449

  Batt, Rosemary ^a  

^a and History   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/001979390105400223     Document Type: Article

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