Download e-book for kindle: Wal-Mart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century by Rebekah Peeples Massengill

By Rebekah Peeples Massengill

ISBN-10: 0814763332

ISBN-13: 9780814763339

ISBN-10: 0814763340

ISBN-13: 9780814763346

Wal-Mart is America’s biggest store. The nationwide chain of shops is a robust stand-in of either the promise and perils of unfastened industry capitalism. but it's also frequently the objective of public outcry for its exertions practices, to claim not anything of class-action court cases, and a relevant image in America’s more and more polarized political discourse over intake, capitalism and executive laws. in lots of methods the conflict over Wal-Mart is the conflict among “Main highway” and “Wall road” because the destiny of staff less than globalization and the facility of the non-public marketplace to successfully distribute important items like well-being care take middle degree.
 
In Wal-Mart Wars, Rebekah Massengill exhibits that the commercial debates are usually not approximately funds and cents, yet as an alternative symbolize a clash over the deployment of deeper symbolic rules approximately freedom, neighborhood, family members, and citizenship. Wal-Mart Wars argues that the kin is not only a tradition wars factor to be debated in regards to same-sex marriage or the boundaries of abortion rights; fairly, the family members is usually an concept that shapes the ways that either conservative and innovative activists discuss monetary concerns, and within the method, build diversified ethical frameworks for comparing capitalism and its such a lot troubling inequalities. With specific recognition to political activism and the position of huge company to the final economic system, Massengill exhibits that the struggle over the practices of this multi-billion buck company delivers us with very important perception into the goals and realities of yankee capitalism.

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