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The worker branch in Yorkshire as a way of organising Polish migrants: exploring the process of carving out diasporic spaces within the trade union structure

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Pages 3406-3421 | Received 30 Jun 2017, Accepted 16 Oct 2018, Published online: 25 Oct 2018

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