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Book Title: IF We Can Win Here : the New Front Lines of the Labor Movement
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Fran Quigley
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Industries / Service, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), Labor & Employment
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Law, Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
