Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism: The Politics of Resistance and Domination

Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism: The Politics of Resistance and Domination

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-216

  Soederberg, Susanne ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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