The coffee pot wars: Unions and firm restructuring in the hotel industry

Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 33-76

  Bernhardt, Annette ^a   Dresser, Laura ^b   Hatton, Erin ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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