New forms to settle old scores: Updating the worker centre story in the United States

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 604-630

  Fine, Janice R ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid forms; Immigrant worker organizing; Worker centres

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855173093     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/1007636ar     Document Type: Article

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