Wal-Mart wars: moral populism in the twenty-first century
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1. Verfasser: Massengill, Rebekah Peeples (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York University Press 2013
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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
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