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22%OFFNicole Woolsey Biggart - Charismatic Capitalism - 9780226047867 - V9780226047867
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Charismatic Capitalism

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Description for Charismatic Capitalism Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 283.
Tupperware Home Parties, Shaklee Corporation, Amway, Mary Kay Cosmetics—theirs is an approach to business that violates many of the basic tenets of modern American commerce. Yet these direct selling organizations, fashioned by charismatic leaders and built upon devoted armies of door-to-door representatives, have grown to constitute an $8.5 billion a year industry and provide a livelihood for more than 5 million workers, the vast majority of them women.

The first full-scale study of this industry, Charismatic Capitalism, revises the standard contention that the rationalization of social institutions is an inevitable consequence of advanced capitalism. Nicole Woolsey Biggart argues ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226047867
SKU
V9780226047867
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