Placing legitimacy: Organising religious support in a hospital workers' contract campaign 1

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 406-425

  Sziarto, Kristin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Ethnography; Hospital workers; Legitimacy; Minneapolis St. Paul; Religion labour alliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149117962     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00482.x     Document Type: Article

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