Organizing the Unorganized

Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Herry, Edmund ^a   Adler, Lee ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Industrial and Labor Relations   (United States)

Author keywords

Employers; Institutions; State; Strategies; Union identities; Union organizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919632316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270149.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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