Labour Markets, Flexible Specialization and the New Microcorporatism: The Case of Canada's Major Appliance Industry

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 279-304

  Wells, Don ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0346512577     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/000026ar     Document Type: Article

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