Revisiting the Democratic Promise of Prisoners' Labor Unions

Studies in Law Politics and Society

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 241-269

  Blankenship, Susan ^a  

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EID: 33645903519     PISSN: 10594337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-4337(05)37010-4     Document Type: Review

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