Labour Deployment in Plants in Canada and Sweden: A Three-Industry Comparison

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 430-456

  Smucker, Joseph ^a   Van Den Berg, Axel ^b   Smith, Michael R ^b   Masi, Anthony C ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 1542632862     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/005300ar     Document Type: Article

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