The limits of solidarity: Labor and transnational organizing against Coca-Cola

American Ethnologist

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 667-680

  Gill, Lesley ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 76449095690     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01202.x     Document Type: Article

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