Active Enactment and Virtuous Circles of Employment Relations: How Danish Unions Organised the Transnationalised Copenhagen Metro Construction Project

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Active Enactment and Virtuous Circles of Employment Relations : How Danish Unions Organised the Transnationalised Copenhagen Metro Construction Project. / Arnholtz, Jens; Refslund, Bjarke.

I: Work, Employment and Society, Bind 33, Nr. 4, 2019, s. 682-699.

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Arnholtz, J & Refslund, B 2019, 'Active Enactment and Virtuous Circles of Employment Relations: How Danish Unions Organised the Transnationalised Copenhagen Metro Construction Project', Work, Employment and Society, bind 33, nr. 4, s. 682-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019832514

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Arnholtz, J., & Refslund, B. (2019). Active Enactment and Virtuous Circles of Employment Relations: How Danish Unions Organised the Transnationalised Copenhagen Metro Construction Project. Work, Employment and Society, 33(4), 682-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019832514

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Arnholtz J, Refslund B. Active Enactment and Virtuous Circles of Employment Relations: How Danish Unions Organised the Transnationalised Copenhagen Metro Construction Project. Work, Employment and Society. 2019;33(4):682-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019832514

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Arnholtz, Jens ; Refslund, Bjarke. / Active Enactment and Virtuous Circles of Employment Relations : How Danish Unions Organised the Transnationalised Copenhagen Metro Construction Project. I: Work, Employment and Society. 2019 ; Bind 33, Nr. 4. s. 682-699.

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