Workers without power: Agency, legacies, and labour decline in East European varieties of Capitalism

Sociologicky Casopis

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 495-522

  Vanhuysse, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elite strategy; Models of capitalism; Public policies; Trade union politics; Unemployment politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348865785     PISSN: 00380288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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