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To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

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Giulietti, Michael P.

Abstract:

The shoe repair transaction, as it occurs in the 5000 or so remaining shoe repair shops in the United States, is currently unexamined in academic literature for the significance it holds for either shoe repairers or their customers. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, this...

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Masters Thesis

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higher status among populations where actual shoe ownership was rare (Wright 1922; Heyman 1994). The