Introduction: Trade unions facing the future

Changing Prospects for Trade Unionism: Comparisons between Six Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-20

  Fairbrother, Peter ^a,b   Griffin, Gerard ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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