'When the Going Gets Tough'...: Recession and the Resilience of Workplace Partnership

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 666-687

  Butler, Peter ^a   Glover, Linda ^a   Tregaskis, Olga ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 81255171662     PISSN: 00071080     EISSN: 14678543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2011.00862.x     Document Type: Article

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