American trade unions and data limitations: A new agenda for labor studies

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2009, Pages 297-320

  Southworth, Caleb ^a   Stepan Norris, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Historical data; Labor; Organizations; Social movements; Working class

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149101044     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120019     Document Type: Article

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