Organizational Narratives and the Construction of Resistance: Union Organizing at a "Progressive" Company

Research in the Sociology of Work

Volumn 16, Issue , 2006, Pages 25-53

  Carreiro, Joshua L ^a  

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EID: 33645951097     PISSN: 02772833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-2833(06)16002-1     Document Type: Review

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