Kitchen capitalism: Microenterprise in low-income households

Kitchen Capitalism: Microenterprise in Low-Income Households

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-276

  Sherraden, Margaret Sherrard ^a,b   Sanders, Cynthia K ^a,b   Sherraden, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

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