Employers’ Choices in Workplace Regulation: Individual Agreements

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 507-521

  Todd, Patricia ^a   Caspersz, Donella ^a   Sutherland, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

bargaining; collective bargaining; employers; individual agreements; industial relations regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992785534     PISSN: 00198692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022185606066142     Document Type: Article

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