A fraternity of danger: Volunteer fire companies and the contradictions of modernization

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-34

  Simpson, Charles R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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