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Fordism and the Positivist Revenant

Response to Burris, Riley, and Fourcade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

George Steinmetz
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Special Section: Commentary on The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
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Social Science History , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , Spring 2007 , pp. 127 - 152
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