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Globalization Threatens Labor's Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly
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New School for Social Research
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Scholarly Controversy: Global Flows of Labor and Capital
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 47 , Spring 1995 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1995

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