Wal-Mart wars moral populism in the twenty-first century
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 Americ...
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| Язык: | English |
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New York
New York University Press,
[2013]
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Оглавление:
- 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.