When do U.S. workers first experience unionization? Implications for revitalizing the labor movement

Industrial Relations

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 209-225

  Budd, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR RELATIONS; TRADE UNION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951150227     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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