Chinese migrant worker representation and institutional change: Social or centralist corporatism?

Asian Journal of Comparative Law

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Croucher, Richard ^a   Miles, Lilian ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

civil society; institutional change; migrant worker representation; unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551597543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19320205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1932-0205.1245     Document Type: Article

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