Multiples of six: The six companies and west coast industrialization, 1930-1945

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-27

  Tassava, Christopher James ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4344600447     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/es/4.1.1     Document Type: Review

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