Living wage and low pay campaigns in Britain

Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 101-121

  Grimshaw, Damian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 53349126796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203629451     Document Type: Chapter

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