Creating and Sustaining Local Union Capabilities: The Role of the National Union

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 307-333

  Frost, Ann C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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EID: 0346512576     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/000027ar     Document Type: Article

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