Small Towns and Big Business - Challenging Wal-mart Superstores

Informationen zum Autor By Stephen Halebsky Klappentext Small Towns and Big Business comprehensively examines the phenomenon of local protests against Wal-Mart superstores. Using fieldwork and archival sources, Halebsky situates these protests in the context of economic restructuring and the expansion of retailing; explains how some local social movements were able to successfully fend off the world's largest retailer; and assesses the implications for efforts to limit corporate power, resist McDonaldization, and protect local quality of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Introduction: Communities, Corporations, and Local Social Movements Chapter 2. Big Retailers, Aggressive Retail Development, and the Roots of Local Protest Chapter 3. How Superstores Affect Small Towns Chapter 4. Gig Harbor, Washington and Petoskey, Michigan: Do the People Want It? Chapter 5. West Bend, Wisconsin and Ottawa, Ohio: A Superstore in the Neighborhood? Chapter 6. Ashland, Wisconsin and Eureka, California: Economic Benefit for Whom? Chapter 7. Explaining Success Chapter 8. The Local State, Corporate Retailing, McDonaldization, and Local Anti-Corporate Activism

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Halebsky
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2010
• EAN: 9780739122419
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2241-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, community development;sociology;urban sociology