Small towns and big business : challenging Wal-Mart superstores /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halebsky, Stephen, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009.
Temas:
Wal-Mart (Firm)
Discount houses (Retail trade) > United States.
Small cities > Economic aspects > United States.
Big business > Social aspects > United States.
Quality of life > United States.
Petites villes > Aspect économique > États-Unis.
Grandes entreprises > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Qualité de la vie > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Retailing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > Direct.
TRAVEL > Shopping.
Big business > Social aspects
Discount houses (Retail trade)
Quality of life
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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