Industrial relations in the Australian engineering industry, : the Amalgamated Engineering Union and craft unionism

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1 University of Wollongong Thesis Collections University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Year 1997 Industrial relations in the Australian engineering industry, : the Amalgamated Engineering Union and craft unionism Kouichi Inaba University of Wollongong Inaba, Kouichi, Industrial relations in the Australian engineering industry, : the Amalgamated Engineering Union and craft unionism, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, This paper is posted at Research Online.

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