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Book Title: Blue-Green Coalitions : Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Brian Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Sociology / General, Industrial Health & Safety, Workplace Culture
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Nature, Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
