Trade union strategy

The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 209-224

  Boxall, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84949766262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781849200431.n11     Document Type: Chapter

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