Global labor history and "the modern world-system": Thoughts at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fernand Braudel Center

International Review of Social History

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 423-459

  Van Der Linden, Marcel ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/s0020859001000268     Document Type: Review

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