Tough meat, hard candy: Implications for low-wage work in the food-processing industry

Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 367-420

  Grunert, Klaus G ^a   James, Susan ^b   Moss, Philip ^c  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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