The third sleeve: Emerging labor newspapers and the response of the labor unions and the state to workers' resistance in Vietnam

Labor Studies Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-279

  Tran, Angie Ngoc ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor union; Newspaper; Socialist state; Strike; Vietnam; Worker

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249152328     PISSN: 0160449X     EISSN: 15389758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X07300716     Document Type: Review

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