Labor's youth brigade: What can the organizing institute and its graduates tell us about the future of organized labor?

Labor Studies Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1-31

  Foerster, Amy ^a  

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EID: 16644369031     PISSN: 0160449X     EISSN: 15389758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X0302800301     Document Type: Review

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