001479977 000__ 05184nam\a22008295i\4500 001479977 001__ 1479977 001479977 003__ DE-B1597 001479977 005__ 20231026035119.0 001479977 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479977 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479977 008__ 230918t20132013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479977 010__ $$a2012040760 001479977 020__ $$a9780814763353 001479977 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814763353.001.0001$$2doi 001479977 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547000 001479977 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479977 0410_ $$aeng 001479977 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479977 05000 $$aHF5429$$b.M337 2013 001479977 050_4 $$aHF5429$$b.M337 2013 001479977 072_7 $$aSOC026000$$2bisacsh 001479977 08204 $$a658.8/7$$223 001479977 1001_ $$aMassengill, Rebekah Peeples, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479977 24510 $$aWal-Mart Wars :$$bMoral Populism in the Twenty-First Century /$$cRebekah Peeples Massengill. 001479977 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2013] 001479977 264_4 $$c©2013 001479977 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b5 black and white illustrations 001479977 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479977 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479977 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479977 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479977 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tPreface -- $$tPart 1. Why Should We Care about the Wal-Mart Debate? -- $$t1. Constructing Moral Markets -- $$t2. Contextualizing the Wal-Mart Wars -- $$tPart 2. Competing Frameworks for Market Morality -- $$t3. Individuals and Communities -- $$t4. Thrift and Benevolence -- $$t5. Freedom and Fairness -- $$tPart 3. Market Morality in Media and Politics -- $$t6. How Wal-Mart Wins the War of Words -- $$t7. Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century -- $$tAppendix. Methodology -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479977 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479977 520__ $$aWal-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. 001479977 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479977 546__ $$aIn English. 001479977 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479977 650_0 $$aMarketing$$xMoral and ethical aspects. 001479977 650_0 $$aMarketing$$xPolitical aspects. 001479977 650_0 $$aRetail trade. 001479977 650_4 $$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General$$2sh. 001479977 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479977 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001479977 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814763339 001479977 852__ $$bebk 001479977 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814763353$$zOnline Access 001479977 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479977$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479977 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_CL_SN 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_SN 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479977 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479977 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479977 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479977 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479977 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479977 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479977 980__ $$aBIB 001479977 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479977 982__ $$aEbook 001479977 983__ $$aOnline