International framework agreements: A new model for securing workers rights?

Industrial Relations

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 707-737

  Riisgaard, Lone ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; LEGAL RIGHTS; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; TRADE UNION;

EID: 33744800274     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2005.00408.x     Document Type: Review

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