Trade Unions, 'Free Trade', and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity: An Introduction

Globalizations

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Bieler, Andreas ^a   Hilary, John ^b   Lindberg, Ingemar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b War on Want ^*

Author keywords

free trade; labour movements; trade unions; transnational solidarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896958093     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2014.860319     Document Type: Article

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