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- ↑ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 97. ISBN 0333771125.
- ↑ Campbell, Joan; Windmuller, John (2012). European Labor Unions. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 24. ISBN 031326371X.
- ↑ "Eine Bewegung in Bewegung". Austrian Trade Union Federation. Retrieved 16 January 2020.