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The power of social media as a labour campaigning tool: lessons from OUR Walmart and the Fight for 15

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  • Vincent Pasquier

    (CleRMa - Clermont Recherche Management - ESC Clermont-Ferrand - École Supérieure de Commerce (ESC) - Clermont-Ferrand - UCA [2017-2020] - Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020])

  • Alex J Wood

    (Oxford Internet Institute - University of Oxford)

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  • Vincent Pasquier & Alex J Wood, 2018. "The power of social media as a labour campaigning tool: lessons from OUR Walmart and the Fight for 15," Post-Print hal-01903758, HAL.
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    4. Alex J. Wood, 2015. "Networks of injustice and worker mobilisation at Walmart," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(4), pages 259-274, July.
    5. Helen Z. Margetts & Peter John & Scott A. Hale & Stéphane Reissfelder, 2015. "Leadership without Leaders? Starters and Followers in Online Collective Action," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 63(2), pages 277-277, June.
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