Negotiating alone or through the union? Swedish employees' attitudes in 1997 and 2006

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 223-241

  Bengtsson, Mattias ^a   Berglund, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

employee representation; labour relations; sociology; trade unions; wage bargaining

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955117104     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X10371989     Document Type: Article

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