Coping with rural Poverty: Economic survival and moral capital in rural America

Social Forces

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 891-914

  Sherman, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 410 Barrows Hall ^*  (United States)

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EID: 33846133699     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2007.0026     Document Type: Review

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