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Automobiles, the Mass Market, and the Retail Revolution of the Early Twentieth Century: A Structural Analysis of Changes in American Retail Institutions, Market Power, and Labor Demand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

TODD C. NEUMANN*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences Humanities and the Arts, University of California, Merced, P.O. Box 2039, Merced, CA 95344. E-mail: tneumann@ucmerced.edu.

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