'Partnership' and new industrial relations in a risk society: An age of shotgun weddings and marriages of convenience?

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 797-817

  Lucio, Miguel Martinez ^a,c   Stuart, Mark ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nurturing, transitional and coerced partnership; Risk unions; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844485590     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017005058068     Document Type: Review

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