Defending dock workers - Globalization and labor relations in the World's Ports

Industrial Relations

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 582-612

  Turnbull, Peter J ^a   Wass, Victoria J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; LABOR RELATIONS; PORT TRADE; TRADE UNION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

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EID: 34250783084     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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