Automation, workers and union decline: Ben Seligman's contribution to the institutional economics of labor

Labor History

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-295

  Stabile, Donald R ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 46649090720     PISSN: 0023656X     EISSN: 14699702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00236560802155969     Document Type: Article

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