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Massengill, Rebekah Peeples. Wal-Mart wars: moral populism in the twenty-first century / Rebekah Peeples Massengill. — 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/564162.pdf>.Record create date: 4/12/2013 Subject: Retail trade.; Marketing — Moral and ethical aspects.; Marketing — Political aspects.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS — Industries — Retailing.; SOCIAL SCIENCE — Sociology — General. Collections: EBSCO Allowed Actions: –
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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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Table of Contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- PART 1 WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE WAL-MART DEBATE?
- 1 Constructing Moral Markets
- 2 Contextualizing the Wal-Mart Wars
- PART 2 COMPETING FRAMEWORKS FOR MARKET MORALITY
- 3 Individuals and Communities
- 4 Thrift and Benevolence
- 5 Freedom and Fairness
- PART 3 MARKET MORALITY IN MEDIA AND POLITICS
- 6 How Wal-Mart Wins the War of Words
- 7 Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century
- Appendix: Methodology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- About the Author
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