Organising and mobilising Central and Eastern European migrant women working in care. A case study of a successful care workers’ strike in Switzerland in 2014
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Agency; activism; mobilisation; migrant workers; organising; trade union renewal; Switzerland; Central and Eastern European workers; care workers;All these keywords.
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