Small towns and big business : challenging Wal-Mart superstores /
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 movement...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: communities, corporations, and local social movements -- Big retailers, aggressive retail development, and the roots of local protest -- How superstores affect small towns -- Gig Harbor, Washington, and Petoskey, Michigan: do the people want it? -- West Bend, Wisconsin, and Ottawa, Ohio: a superstore in the neighborhood? -- Ashland, Wisconsin and Eureka, California: economic benefit for whom? -- Explaining success -- The local state, corporate retailing, McDonaldization, and local anticorporate activism. | |
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