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Cultural Studies Review
volume 19 number 1 March 2013
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/index
pp. 22848
!Helen Kennedy 2013
ISSN 1837-8692
Against Amateur Economies
Spec Work Competitions and the Anti-spec Movement
HELEN KENNEDY
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
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