Class struggles and the reinvention of American capitalism in the second half of the twentieth century

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 336-343

  Lippit, Victor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic controller's strike; Capital labor accord; Capitalism; Caterpillar strike; Globalization; Social structure of accumulations (SSA); Wal Mart

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444370856     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613404267700     Document Type: Article

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