The predatory society : deception in the American marketplace /
Who knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the deceptions their employers practiced on the public....
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1990.
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Table of Contents:
- Bit of Bolshevik sociology: workers write about their jobs
- Selling it: the seamy side of the market
- Ignorance: dumb customers and distracted customers
- Ignorance in the "knowledge" society: the technically uniformed customer
- Helpless customers and Potemkin villages
- Scarcity
- Perishability
- Filth
- Petty bourgeios tricks
- Honest business: neighborhoods and saints
- Morality and the marketplace.