Protest avoidance: Labor mobilization and social policy reform in France

Mobilization

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-311

  Béland, Daniel ^a   Marier, Patrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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