Taking on the CosmoCorps? Experiments in Transnational Labor OrganizationFootnote

* This research is part of a larger project entitled “The Re-Scaling of Workplace Solidarity? The Implications of European Works Councils for British Industrial Relations,” which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Grant no. R000221873). The support of the ESRC is gratefully acknowledged.

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