Plastic manufacturers: How competitive strategies and technology decisions transformed jobs and increased pay disparity among rank-and-file workers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 195-226

  Ballantine Jr , John W ^a   Ferguson, Ronald F ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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