Opportunity Knocks: Entrepreneurship, informality and home gardening in South Texas

Journal of Borderlands Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 59-76

  Pisani, Michael J ^a   Yoskowitz, David W ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

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EID: 38349089204     PISSN: 08865655     EISSN: 21591229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2006.9695660     Document Type: Article

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