Trucking Country : The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist...

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Autor principal: Hamilton, Shane, 1976-
Formato: Livre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press [2016].
Edición:Course Book.
Acceso en línea:Accès Université Orléans et IFPM
Nota: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Sep. 08, 2016)
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 322 p.
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