Manufacturing resiliency: economic restructuring and automotive manufacturing in the Great Lakes region
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عنوان ژورنال: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1752-1378,1752-1386
DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsu014