Global garment chains, local labour activism: New challenges to trade union and NGO activism in the Tiruppur garment cluster, South India

Research in Economic Anthropology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2008, Pages 213-240

  De Neve, Geert ^a  

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EID: 51349115050     PISSN: 01901281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0190-1281(08)28010-8     Document Type: Review

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