Australian trade unions and the politics of scale: Reconstructing the spatiality of industrial relations

Economic Geography

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-43

  Sadler, David ^a   Fagan, Bob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Globalization; Labor relations; Scale; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; LABOR RELATIONS; TRADE UNION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0348122883     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2004.tb00227.x     Document Type: Article

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