How do shop stewards perceive their situation and tasks? Preconditions for support of union work

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 569-599

  Pilemalm, Sofie ^a   Hallberg, Niklas ^a   Timpka, Toomas ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Rehabilitation Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Labour relations; Shop stewards; Trade unions; Union membership

Indexed keywords

EID: 20144380319     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X01224006     Document Type: Article

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