" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."
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Chapter Four, Standstill and Movement Under Monopoly Capitalism, II, p. 84Paul A. Baran
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