The yellow sweatshirt: Human dignity and economic human rights in advanced industrial democracies

Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-45

  Howard Hassmann, Rhoda E ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84859233638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511842269.003     Document Type: Chapter

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