02701nam 2200613 450 991045437940332120200520144314.01-280-52536-30-19-802080-5(CKB)1000000000718487(EBL)273156(OCoLC)476014984(SSID)ssj0000364670(PQKBManifestationID)12126614(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364670(PQKBWorkID)10399195(PQKB)11092715(MiAaPQ)EBC273156(Au-PeEL)EBL273156(CaPaEBR)ebr11303284(CaONFJC)MIL52536(OCoLC)935260966(EXLCZ)99100000000071848720161202h19891989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe predatory society deception in the American marketplace /Paul BlumbergNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1989.©19891 online resource (271 p.)Includes index.0-19-503762-6 Contents; Introduction: The Paradox of Capitalism; 1 A Bit of Bolshevik Sociology: Workers Write About Their Jobs; 2 Selling It: The Seamy Side of the Marketplace; 3 Ignorance: Dumb Customers and Distracted Customers; 4 Ignorance in the ""Knowledge"" Society: The Technically Uninformed Customer; 5 Helpless Customers and Potemkin Villages; 6 Scarcity; 7 Perishability; 8 Filth; 9 Petty Bourgeois Tricks; 10 Honest Business: Neighborhoods and Saints; 11 Morality and the Marketplace; Appendix: Business Ethics and Research Ethics; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; RST; U; V; W; YReveals the extent to which fraud is practiced on the American consumer, and offers an analysis of its causes and social consequences. This work examines 600 accounts by workers in such businesses as restaurants, gas stations, and drug stores of the fraudulent practices of their employers.EconomicsMoral and ethical aspectsCapitalismMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesIndustriesSocial aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.EconomicsMoral and ethical aspects.CapitalismMoral and ethical aspectsIndustriesSocial aspects381.30973Blumberg Paul107081MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454379403321The predatory society1965290UNINA