Genuine renewal or pyrrhic victory? the scale politics of trade union recognition in the UK

Antipode

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 116-138

  Cumbers, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; HEGEMONY; TRADE UNION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 27744518539     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00476.x     Document Type: Review

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