Negotiating sustainability: Climate change framing in the communications, energy and paperworkers union

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-140

  Daub, Shannon J ^a  

^a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Framing; Labor environmental relations; Negotiated order; Social movements; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249088728     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2010.33.1.115     Document Type: Article

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