Offshore democracy: Launch and landfall of a socio-technical experiment

Economy and Society

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 553-581

  Lezaun, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

industrial democracy; political demonstrations

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHIP DESIGN;

HEMIRAMPHUS BALAO;

EID: 84858600748     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: 14695766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2011.602296     Document Type: Article

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