Rescaling employment relations: Key outcomes of change in the privatised rail industry

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1347-1369

  MacKinnon, Danny ^a   Cumbers, Andrew ^b   Shaw, Jon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; DECENTRALIZATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR RELATIONS; PRIVATIZATION; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRADE UNION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 45149131401     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a39203     Document Type: Article

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