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The World of Wal-Mart: Discounting the American Dream (Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology) by Nick Copeland, Christine Labuski is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart’s success to the failure of American (and global) society to make the Dream available to everyone. It shows how decades of neoliberal economic policies have exposed contradictions at the heart of the Drea
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nick Copeland, Christine Labuski
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781135098506
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Economics, Anthropology, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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