The insecure middle class and unionisation: An empirical investigation of class, job insecurity and union membership

Job Insecurity, Union Involvement and Union Activism

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 49-62

  Steijn, Bram ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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