Global capital, local resistance?: Trade unions, national newspapers and the symbolic contestation of 'offshoring' in the UK

Current Sociology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 651-673

  Downey, John ^a   Fenton, Natalie ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Globalization; Mass media; Offshoring; Ttrade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548229861     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392107079921     Document Type: Article

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