Worker rights and economic development: The cases of occupational safety and health and child labor

Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 363-378

  Dorman, Peter ^a  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84928772269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511511257.017     Document Type: Chapter

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