Union power: Space, structure, and strategy

Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 123-143

  Cooper, Rae ^a   Ellem, Bradon ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511814624.009     Document Type: Chapter

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