How Good Men of the Union Justify Inequality: Dilemmas of Race and Labor in the Building Trades

Labor Studies Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 371-392

  Paap, Kris ^a  

^a SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; labor unions; race; racial discrimination; sex discrimination; sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849117746     PISSN: 0160449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X08322773     Document Type: Article

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