The diversity of industrial experience: Cabinet and furniture manufacture in late nineteenth-century Ontario

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 326-371

  Forster, Ben ^a   Inwood, Kris ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Department of Economics ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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EID: 4344624031     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S146722270001226X     Document Type: Review

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