Social Investment by Union-Based Pension Funds and Labour-Sponsored Investment Funds in Canada

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 92-113

  Quarter, Jack ^a   Carmichael, Isla ^a   Sousa, Jorge ^a   Elgie, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0345881756     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/000142ar     Document Type: Article

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