No safe havens: Labour, regional integration and globalisation

Regionalisation and Global Governance: The Taming of Globalisation?

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 142-156

  O'Brien, Robert ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 77956267536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203933398     Document Type: Chapter

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