Disasters: Where the Law Fails : a New Agenda for Dealing with Corporate Violence
- ISBN-10
- 0951999516
- ISBN-13
- 9780951999516
- Series
- Disasters
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Herald Charitable Trust
- Author
- David Bergman
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- 2010-06-08
- 228 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
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