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            Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50005553
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            Title: World Review of Political Economy
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            ISSN: 2042-891X
            ISSN: 2042-8928
            Publication date (Print): 1 July 2019
            Volume: 10
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            Pages: 191-219
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            Keywords: child labor,capitalism,logic of accumulation,labor unfreedom,violence

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