Agro-industrial just-in-time: The chicken industry and postwar American capitalism

Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 139-165

  Boyd, William ^a   Watts, Michael ^b  

^a US South   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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