Workplace democracy: Why bother?

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 173-191

  Foley, Janice R ^a   Polanyi, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b KAIROS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Employee health; Employee rights; Industrial democracy; North America; Working arrangements

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746074818     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X06060595     Document Type: Review

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