Small towns and big business
Subtitle: challenging Wal-Mart superstores
By: Stephen Halebsky.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780739122402; 9780739133477
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: communities, corporations, and local social movements; title: Big retailers, aggressive retail development, and the roots of local protest; title: How superstores affect small towns; title: Gig Harbor, Washington and Petoskey, Michigan: do the people want it?; title: West Bend, Wisconsin and Ottawa, Ohio: a superstore in the neighborhood?; title: Ashland, Wisconsin and Eureka, California: economic benefit for whom?; title: Explaining success; title: The local state, corporate retailing, McDonaldization, and local anti-corporate activism.