Democratic dilemmas: Union democracy and union renewal

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-382

  Voss, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

labour revitalization; Union democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998103893     PISSN: 10242589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1024258910373868     Document Type: Article

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