"The University works because we do": On the determinants of campus labor organizing in the 1990s

Sociological Perspectives

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 375-396

  Dixon, Marc ^a   Tope, Daniel ^a   Van Dyke, Nella ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor; Social movements; Student protest

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449088153     PISSN: 07311214     EISSN: 15338673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sop.2008.51.2.375     Document Type: Article

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