Theorizing Wisconsin's 2011 protests: Community-based unionism confronts accumulation by dispossession

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-20

  Collins, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84857606292     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01340.x     Document Type: Article

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