Fair wages: Strengthening corporate social responsibility

Fair Wages: Strengthening Corporate Social Responsibility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Vaughan Whitebead, Daniel ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

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