‘What we do’ or ‘Who we are’?: Trade union responses to globalization and regionalization in South Africa

Globalization, Employment and the Workplace: Diverse Impacts

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 85-114

  Bezuidenhout, Andries ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 84858562101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203451670-10     Document Type: Chapter

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