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

Wal-Mart Wars : : Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century / / 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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Massengill, Rebekah Peeples,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 5 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • About the Author

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