Integrating the supply chain: Industrial relations implications in US grocery distribution

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-114

  Lund, John ^a   Wright, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; LABOR RELATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRADE UNION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041520523     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-005X.00113     Document Type: Article

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