The empire of direct sales and the making of Thai entrepreneurs

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 401-422

  Wilson, Ara ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct sales; Entrepreneur; Ethnography of capitalism; Post Fordism; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033274122     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9901900406     Document Type: Article

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