Weirton revisited: Finance, the working class, and Rustbelt steel restructuring

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 352-357

  Goldstein, Don ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate restructuring; Deindustrialization; Financialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249099268     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613409336349     Document Type: Article

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