Are the Unions still Needed? Employees' Views of their Relations to Unions and Employers

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 573-594

  Furåker, Bengt ^a   Berglund, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Employment relationship; Individualism; Social class; Unionization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142199370     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X030244005     Document Type: Review

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