The limits of transnational solidarity: the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Swaziland and Zimbabwean crises

Labor History

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 527-539

  Wood, Geoffrey ^a   Dibben, Pauline ^b   Klerck, Gilton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 84890442573     PISSN: 0023656X     EISSN: 14699702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2013.849925     Document Type: Article

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