Wal-Mart Wars Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Wal-Mart Wars Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780814763346

ISBN-10: 0814763340

ISBN-13: 9780814763346

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rebekah Peeples Massengill

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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 precious goods like health care take center stage. In Wal-Mart Wars, Rebekah Massengill shows that…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792

Rebekah Peeples Massengill is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University.