Responses to downsizing under different adjustment regimes: A two-country comparison

Job Insecurity, Union Involvement and Union Activism

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 155-186

  van den Berg, Axel ^a   Masi, Anthony ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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