Changing regimes of workplace governance, shifting axes of social mobilization, and the challenge to industrial relations theory

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 299-325

  Piore, Michael J ^a,b   Safford, Sean ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH;

EID: 33745190975     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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