Exercising Workers' Rights: The Italian COBAS Experience

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Exercising Workers' Rights: The Italian COBAS Experience

In this paper I will use the Italian union COBAS as an example of successful grass-roots organisations, as an opportunity to explore the transformations of Italian unions during the last few decades, and as a starting point for a more general reflection on the dynamics of trade unionism. In particul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baldissone , Riccardo
Other Authors:	Bobbie Oliver
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	Black Swan Press 2009
Subjects:	unions Workers' Rights school workers COBAS rallies strikes
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8407

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