Globalization and the new spaces for social movement politics: The marginalization of labor unions in Bolivian gas nationalization

Globalizations

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-185

  Haarstad, Håvard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bolivia; investment climate; Labor unions; nationalization; political space

Indexed keywords

EID: 73049112014     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747730902854141     Document Type: Article

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