Cheap labor: The new politics of "bread and roses" in industrial democracies

Perspectives on Politics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 279-297

  King, Desmond ^a   Rueda, David ^b  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 44949213796     PISSN: 15375927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592708080614     Document Type: Review

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