Labor agency and the importance of the national scale: Emergent aquaculture unionism in Chile

Political Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 94-103

  Oseland, Stina Ellevseth ^a   Haarstad, Håvard ^a   Fløysand, Arnt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agency; Aquaculture; Chile; Labor; Scale

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LABOR STANDARD; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; TRADE UNION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

CHILE;

EID: 84857191154     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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