Employee participation in the EU: The long and winding road to legislation

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 31, Issue 4_suppl, 2010, Pages 9-23

  Gold, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

employee participation; European integration; European works councils; industrial democracy; labour legislation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994252980     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X10375632     Document Type: Article

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