Title: The ghetto marketplace.
Authors: Sturdivant, Frederick D.,
Publisher: Free Press
Year: 1969
Subjects: Poor United States; Urban poor United States.; Low-income consumers.
Contents: Riot report, by B. Weber.--The marketplace; participants and problems. Low-income life styles, by L. M. Irelan and A. Besner.--How the poor spend their money, by H. H. Lamale.--Consumer practices of the poor, by L. G. Richards.--The merchant and the low-income consumer, by D. Caplovitz.--Economic report on installment credit and retail sales practices of District of Columbia retailers, by Federal Trade Commission.--Poverty, minorities, and consumer exploitation, by F. D. Sturdivant and W. T. Wilhelm.--Prices in poor neighborhoods, by P. Groom.--White withdrawal; ghetto merchants shy away from civic ties in areas they serve, from Wall street journal.--Negro and Jew, by P. Jacobs.--Better deal for ghetto shoppers, by F. D. Sturdivant.--Corrective action and reaction. Is war on poverty becoming war on business? By P. Hencke.--Violence in the city; an end or a beginning, by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots.--Should supermarkets take a new look at urban areas? from Food topics.--A business development program for our poverty areas, by R. F. Kennedy.--The retailers, the ghetto, and the government, by M. Hall and B. Williams.--After the riots; a position paper for retailing by R. Rosenthall.--Deception in the marketplace of the poor; the role of the Federal Trade Commission, by M. G. Jones.--The limits of Black capitalism, by F. D. Sturdivant.