Union involvement during downsizing and its relation to attitudes and distress among workers

Job Insecurity, Union Involvement and Union Activism

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 97-116

  Isaksson, Kerstin ^a   Hellgren, Johnny ^b   Pettersson, Par ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Fil dr Par Pettersson ^*  (Sweden)

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