Patch-work solidarity: Describing and explaining US and European labour internationalism

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 849-879

  Burgoon, Brian ^a   Jacoby, Wade ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AFL CIO; Cross border; ETUC; European Union; Globalization; Internationalism; Labour Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 11344275075     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969229042000313055     Document Type: Article

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