Social contracts under stress: The middle classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the turn of the century

Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-431

  Zunz, Olivier ^a   Schoppa, Leonard ^a   Hiwatari, Nobuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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