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1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index. |
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Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Why should we care about the Wal-Mart debate? -- Constructing moral markets -- Contextualizing the Wal-Mart wars -- Competing frameworks for market morality -- Individuals and communities -- Thrift and benevolence -- Freedom and fairness -- Market morality in media and politics -- How Wal-Mart wins the war of words -- Moral populism in the twenty-first century -- Appendix: Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. |
| Summary |
Wal-Mart is America's largest retailer. The national chain of stores is a powerful stand-in of both the promise and perils of free market capitalism. Yet it is also often the target of public outcry for its labor practices, to say nothing of class-action lawsuits, and a central symbol in America's increasingly polarized political discourse over consumption, capitalism and government regulations. In many ways the battle over Wal-Mart is the battle between "Main Street" and "Wall Street" as the fate of workers under globalization and the ability of the private market to effectively distribute pr. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wal-Mart (Firm)
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Wal-Mart (Firm) |
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Wal-Mart (Firm) |
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Retail trade.
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Retail trade. |
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Marketing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Marketing -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Marketing -- Political aspects.
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Marketing. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Walmart wars |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Massengill, Rebekah Peeples, 1975- Wal-Mart wars. New York : New York University Press, [2013] 9780814763339 (DLC) 2012040760 (OCoLC)816654980 |
| ISBN |
0814763359 (electronic book) |
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9780814763353 (electronic book) |
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9780814763360 (e-book) |
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0814763367 (e-book) |
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9780814763339 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0814763332 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780814763346 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0814763340 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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