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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Main Author: Blumberg, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.