Fashioning furniture: Restructuring the furniture commodity chain

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Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 427-437

  Leslie, Deborah ^a   Reimer, Suzanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canada; Commodity chains; Fashion; Furniture industry; Temporality; UK

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MANUFACTURING; RETAILING;

CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0346907279     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0004-0894.2003.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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