03753nam 2200601Ia 450 991080865000332120200520144314.00-8147-6335-910.18574/9780814763353(CKB)2670000000340566(EBL)1168275(OCoLC)838793636(SSID)ssj0000856927(PQKBManifestationID)11520713(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856927(PQKBWorkID)10837481(PQKB)11287986(MiAaPQ)EBC1168275(MdBmJHUP)muse27178(DE-B1597)547000(DE-B1597)9780814763353(EXLCZ)99267000000034056620121107d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrWal-Mart wars moral populism in the twenty-first century /Rebekah Peeples Massengill1st ed.New York New York University Press20131 online resource (244 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-6334-0 0-8147-6333-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Preface --1. Constructing Moral Markets --2. Contextualizing the Wal-Mart Wars --3. Individuals and Communities --4. Thrift and Benevolence --5. Freedom and Fairness --6. How Wal-Mart Wins the War of Words --7. Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century --Appendix. Methodology --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorWal-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 the economic debates are not about dollars and cents, but instead represent a conflict over the deployment of deeper symbolic ideas about freedom, community, family, and citizenship. Wal-Mart Wars argues that the family is not just a culture wars issue to be debated with regard to same-sex marriage or the limits of abortion rights; rather, the family is also an idea that shapes the ways in which both conservative and progressive activists talk about economic issues, and in the process, construct different moral frameworks for evaluating capitalism and its most troubling inequalities. With particular attention to political activism and the role of big business to the overall economy, Massengill shows that the fight over the practices of this multi-billion dollar corporation can provide us with important insight into the dreams and realities of American capitalism.Retail tradeMarketingMoral and ethical aspectsMarketingPolitical aspectsRetail trade.MarketingMoral and ethical aspects.MarketingPolitical aspects.658.8/7Massengill Rebekah Peeples1975-1694146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808650003321Wal-Mart Wars4072489UNINA