Inward Investment and Economic Regeneration: Listening to Workers in Rhondda-Cynon-Taff

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 198-220

  Cato, Molly Scott ^a  

^a Green Audit   (United States)

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EID: 84992885787     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02690940110056124     Document Type: Article

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