Organizing Marketized Services: Are Trade Unions up to the Job?

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-40

  Dølvik, Jon Erik ^a   Waddington, Jeremy ^b,c  

^a FAFO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Employment and Social Policies Unit of the Research Department at the European Trade Union Institute   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Articulation; Members; Restructuring; Services; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642518422     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014383104773684542     Document Type: Review

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