Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 445-495

  Steinberg, Marc W ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/379919     Document Type: Article

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