Cheap : the high cost of discount culture / Ellen Ruppel Shell.
By: Shell, Ellen Ruppel.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2009Description: xix, 296 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781594202155 (trade); 159420215X.Subject(s): Discount houses (Retail trade) -- United States | Consumer behavior -- United States | Discount houses (Retail trade) | Consumers -- United StatesDDC classification: 381/.149/0973 Summary: Explores the influence of mass-produced, inexpensive goods on economics and society, discussing outsourcing, technology, globalization, deregulation, and related topics, and contending that such practices are harmful.Explores the influence of mass-produced, inexpensive goods on economics and society, discussing outsourcing, technology, globalization, deregulation, and related topics, and contending that such practices are harmful.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-285) and index.
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