Mining the past: Historical context and the changing implications of natural resource extraction

Social Problems

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 444-466

  Frickel, Scott ^a,b   Freudenburg, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0038869581     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3096954     Document Type: Article

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