Desperate measures: Strikes and wages in post-accord America

Social Forces

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 235-265

  Rosenfeld, Jake ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749259977     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0140     Document Type: Article

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