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Small towns and big business : challenging Wal-Mart superstores
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- Creator
- Stephen Halebsky
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780739133477, 9780739122402, 0739133470, 9780739122419, 1282494155, 9786612494154, 0739122401, 073912241X
- OCLC
- ocn311274112, ocn247963419
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
- 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