The Resource The world of Wal-Mart : discounting the American dream, Nicholas Copeland and Christine Labuski
The world of Wal-Mart : discounting the American dream, Nicholas Copeland and Christine Labuski
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- Summary
- "This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart's success to the failure of American (and global) society to make the Dream available to everyone. It shows how decades of neoliberal economic policies have exposed contradictions at the heart of the Dream, creating an opening for Wal-Mart. The company's success has generated a host of negative externalities, however, fueling popular ambivalence and organized opposition. The book also describes the strategies that Wal-Mart uses to maintain legitimacy, fend off unions, enter new markets, and cultivate an aura of benevolence and ordinariness, despite these externalities. It focuses on Wal-Mart's efforts to forge symbolic and affective inclusion, and their self-promotion as a free market solution to social problems of poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction. Finally, the book contrasts the conceptions of freedom and human rights that underlie Wal-Mart's business model to the alternative visions of freedom forwarded by their critics."--Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 144 pages
- Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- Wal-Mart's Cultural Politics
- From the Ozarks to the Globe
- Wal-Mart Nation
- The People of Wal-Mart
- Wal-Mart's Anti-Union Strategies
- The Space of Wal-Mart
- Wal-Mart at Large
- Wal-Mart and Freedom
- Isbn
- 9780415894876
- Label
- The world of Wal-Mart : discounting the American dream
- Title
- The world of Wal-Mart
- Title remainder
- discounting the American dream
- Statement of responsibility
- Nicholas Copeland and Christine Labuski
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart's success to the failure of American (and global) society to make the Dream available to everyone. It shows how decades of neoliberal economic policies have exposed contradictions at the heart of the Dream, creating an opening for Wal-Mart. The company's success has generated a host of negative externalities, however, fueling popular ambivalence and organized opposition. The book also describes the strategies that Wal-Mart uses to maintain legitimacy, fend off unions, enter new markets, and cultivate an aura of benevolence and ordinariness, despite these externalities. It focuses on Wal-Mart's efforts to forge symbolic and affective inclusion, and their self-promotion as a free market solution to social problems of poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction. Finally, the book contrasts the conceptions of freedom and human rights that underlie Wal-Mart's business model to the alternative visions of freedom forwarded by their critics."--Publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Copeland, Nicholas
- Dewey number
- 381/.1490973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HF5429.215.U6
- LC item number
- C68 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Labuski, Christine
- Series statement
- Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wal-Mart (Firm)
- Discount houses (Retail trade)
- Business anthropology
- Corporate culture
- Consumption (Economics)
- United States
- Label
- The world of Wal-Mart : discounting the American dream, Nicholas Copeland and Christine Labuski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Wal-Mart's Cultural Politics -- From the Ozarks to the Globe -- Wal-Mart Nation -- The People of Wal-Mart -- Wal-Mart's Anti-Union Strategies -- The Space of Wal-Mart -- Wal-Mart at Large -- Wal-Mart and Freedom
- Control code
- 703208477
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 144 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415894876
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012028229
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- The world of Wal-Mart : discounting the American dream, Nicholas Copeland and Christine Labuski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Wal-Mart's Cultural Politics -- From the Ozarks to the Globe -- Wal-Mart Nation -- The People of Wal-Mart -- Wal-Mart's Anti-Union Strategies -- The Space of Wal-Mart -- Wal-Mart at Large -- Wal-Mart and Freedom
- Control code
- 703208477
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 144 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415894876
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012028229
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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