Cut to the bone? Hospital takeovers and nurse employment contracts

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 471-493

  Currie, Janet ^a   Farsi, Mehdi ^b   MacLeod, W Bentley ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 20044365845     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979390505800309     Document Type: Article

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