Carolina Bank Muñoz
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501712883
- eISBN:
- 9781501714771
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501712883.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
Building Power from Below analyzes the success of Walmart workers in Chile. Retail and warehouse workers have achieved the seemingly unachievable. They have organized Walmart. How do we explain ...
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Building Power from Below analyzes the success of Walmart workers in Chile. Retail and warehouse workers have achieved the seemingly unachievable. They have organized Walmart. How do we explain workers’ success in Chile, the cradle of neoliberalism, in challenging the world’s largest and most antiunion corporation? Chilean workers have spent years building grass roots organizations committed to principles of union democracy. While both retail and warehouse workers have successful unions, they have built different organizations due to their industry, workforce, and political histories. The independent retail worker unions are best characterized by what I call flexible militancy. These unions have less structural power, but have significant associational and symbolic power. While they have made notable bread and butter gains, their most notable successes have been in fighting for respect and dignity on the job. Warehouse workers by contrast have significant structural power. Their unions are best characterized by what I call strategic democracy. Their structural power has offered them the opportunity to “map production” and build strategic capacity. They have been especially successful in economic gains. While the model in Chile cannot necessarily be reproduced in different countries, we can certainly gain insights from their approaches, tactics, and strategies.Less
Building Power from Below analyzes the success of Walmart workers in Chile. Retail and warehouse workers have achieved the seemingly unachievable. They have organized Walmart. How do we explain workers’ success in Chile, the cradle of neoliberalism, in challenging the world’s largest and most antiunion corporation? Chilean workers have spent years building grass roots organizations committed to principles of union democracy. While both retail and warehouse workers have successful unions, they have built different organizations due to their industry, workforce, and political histories. The independent retail worker unions are best characterized by what I call flexible militancy. These unions have less structural power, but have significant associational and symbolic power. While they have made notable bread and butter gains, their most notable successes have been in fighting for respect and dignity on the job. Warehouse workers by contrast have significant structural power. Their unions are best characterized by what I call strategic democracy. Their structural power has offered them the opportunity to “map production” and build strategic capacity. They have been especially successful in economic gains. While the model in Chile cannot necessarily be reproduced in different countries, we can certainly gain insights from their approaches, tactics, and strategies.
John D. Martin, J. William Petty, and James S. Wallace
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195340389
- eISBN:
- 9780199867257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340389.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
This chapter presents many economic arguments in support of value(s)-based management, the idea that CSR fits in well within a VBM framework because CSR appears to make good business sense. Corporate ...
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This chapter presents many economic arguments in support of value(s)-based management, the idea that CSR fits in well within a VBM framework because CSR appears to make good business sense. Corporate social responsibility follows from the premise that it is important for a firm to operate in a socially responsible manner that considers the importance of all of its stakeholders and how they contribute to the company's long-term, sustainable creation of value. Economic arguments that support the business purpose of CSR include the fact that it can help recruit and retain employees, provide reputational risk management, assist in differentiating firm branding, and help avoid governmental scrutiny and interference. The existing academic evidence is consistent with the economic arguments supporting a firm's development of a CSR program.Less
This chapter presents many economic arguments in support of value(s)-based management, the idea that CSR fits in well within a VBM framework because CSR appears to make good business sense. Corporate social responsibility follows from the premise that it is important for a firm to operate in a socially responsible manner that considers the importance of all of its stakeholders and how they contribute to the company's long-term, sustainable creation of value. Economic arguments that support the business purpose of CSR include the fact that it can help recruit and retain employees, provide reputational risk management, assist in differentiating firm branding, and help avoid governmental scrutiny and interference. The existing academic evidence is consistent with the economic arguments supporting a firm's development of a CSR program.
Edward Morris
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231170543
- eISBN:
- 9780231540506
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170543.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
The chapter describes the life of Charles Merrill and the formation of Merrill Lynch.
The chapter describes the life of Charles Merrill and the formation of Merrill Lynch.
Roger White, Guy Engelen, and Inge Uljee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029568
- eISBN:
- 9780262331371
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029568.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
The structure of a system of retail centres as described by their size, composition, and location, is a result of competition among the centres for customers. The evolution of the system is described ...
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The structure of a system of retail centres as described by their size, composition, and location, is a result of competition among the centres for customers. The evolution of the system is described by a set of cost and revenue equations. The revenue equations include a distance decay parameter. When this parameter is below a critical value, retail activity tends to agglomerate in a major, centrally located centre; otherwise, it tends to be dispersed among a number of similar centres. This fundamental bifurcation appears in actual retail systems. It underlies such phenomena as itinerant medieval trade fairs, the historical migration of the major retail centre of cities like London and New York, and innovations like the department store, the regional mall, and power centres. Since a lower distance decay parameter is associated with higher energy densities, a direct link is established between spatial structure, energy, and technology.Less
The structure of a system of retail centres as described by their size, composition, and location, is a result of competition among the centres for customers. The evolution of the system is described by a set of cost and revenue equations. The revenue equations include a distance decay parameter. When this parameter is below a critical value, retail activity tends to agglomerate in a major, centrally located centre; otherwise, it tends to be dispersed among a number of similar centres. This fundamental bifurcation appears in actual retail systems. It underlies such phenomena as itinerant medieval trade fairs, the historical migration of the major retail centre of cities like London and New York, and innovations like the department store, the regional mall, and power centres. Since a lower distance decay parameter is associated with higher energy densities, a direct link is established between spatial structure, energy, and technology.
Traci Parker
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469648675
- eISBN:
- 9781469648699
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in ...
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In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.Less
In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.
Deepak Singh
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520293304
- eISBN:
- 9780520966475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520293304.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter looks at how a newly arrived immigrant tries to handle a rude customer who is both abusive and unreasonable.
This chapter looks at how a newly arrived immigrant tries to handle a rude customer who is both abusive and unreasonable.
Jesse LeCavalier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816693313
- eISBN:
- 9781452955360
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693313.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
The Rule of Logistics examines how Walmart, the largest company on the planet, depends its success on its vast networks of buildings and the logistical systems that connect them. For Walmart, ...
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The Rule of Logistics examines how Walmart, the largest company on the planet, depends its success on its vast networks of buildings and the logistical systems that connect them. For Walmart, logistics dictates the design of the retailer's buildings, governs their deployment, and conditions the workers who operate them. By tracking Walmart's spatial operations, this book shows how the company's logistical obsessions have implications at all scales: from undermining the stability of architecture while investing it with political capacity; to challenging the inalienable features of locations by focusing on the aspects that connect rather than distinguish them; to blurring the threshold between man and machine in order create new possibilites for inhabitation. By doing so, the book identifies opportunities based on the features of logistics itself and argues that these concepts—including prototypes, loose forms, fungible locations, ambiguous borders, and recombinant territories—can help us think differently as we confront some of the contemporary challenges facing architecture and the city.Less
The Rule of Logistics examines how Walmart, the largest company on the planet, depends its success on its vast networks of buildings and the logistical systems that connect them. For Walmart, logistics dictates the design of the retailer's buildings, governs their deployment, and conditions the workers who operate them. By tracking Walmart's spatial operations, this book shows how the company's logistical obsessions have implications at all scales: from undermining the stability of architecture while investing it with political capacity; to challenging the inalienable features of locations by focusing on the aspects that connect rather than distinguish them; to blurring the threshold between man and machine in order create new possibilites for inhabitation. By doing so, the book identifies opportunities based on the features of logistics itself and argues that these concepts—including prototypes, loose forms, fungible locations, ambiguous borders, and recombinant territories—can help us think differently as we confront some of the contemporary challenges facing architecture and the city.
Traci Parker
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469648675
- eISBN:
- 9781469648699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648675.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The exceptionality of retail unions governing Macy’s Herald Square in New York City and South Center Department Store in Chicago in advancing black labor and civil rights is the subject of chapter ...
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The exceptionality of retail unions governing Macy’s Herald Square in New York City and South Center Department Store in Chicago in advancing black labor and civil rights is the subject of chapter three. New York and Chicago locals successfully linked worker and consumer rights and improved African Americans’ social and economic conditions, even propelling some of them into the middle class. Also, in acting as both labor and civil rights organizations, these unions expanded views on fair employment in this industry beyond bread-and-butter issues and promoted equal employment and promotion. These unions point to the nature and direction of the black freedom struggle, albeit without the presence of strong unionism.Less
The exceptionality of retail unions governing Macy’s Herald Square in New York City and South Center Department Store in Chicago in advancing black labor and civil rights is the subject of chapter three. New York and Chicago locals successfully linked worker and consumer rights and improved African Americans’ social and economic conditions, even propelling some of them into the middle class. Also, in acting as both labor and civil rights organizations, these unions expanded views on fair employment in this industry beyond bread-and-butter issues and promoted equal employment and promotion. These unions point to the nature and direction of the black freedom struggle, albeit without the presence of strong unionism.
James Greenhalgh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526114143
- eISBN:
- 9781526136060
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526114143.003.0003
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This chapter examines the strategies employed by the local governments of Manchester and Hull to govern the space of their cities in the immediate post-war period by examining policies and projects ...
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This chapter examines the strategies employed by the local governments of Manchester and Hull to govern the space of their cities in the immediate post-war period by examining policies and projects that sought to control the built environment. The techniques of spatial governance local governments deployed ranged from zoning large areas, to prohibiting certain types of business, display or activity and included control of land, buildings and even the air. The chapter argues that in the immediate post-war period local corporations attempted to expand their ability to control their cities in a holistic sense through the application and expansion of national planning legislation. Their aim was the assertion of a long-term, rational approach to the physical development of their cities, but their means were often mundane or small-scale: control of fun-fairs, the regulation of air or advertising as well as the siting of shops were all part of corporations holistic view of the functional city. These attempts were contested by the agencies of the national state, commercial elites and the inhabitants of the cities, illustrating the deeply contested character of modernity in the post-war.Less
This chapter examines the strategies employed by the local governments of Manchester and Hull to govern the space of their cities in the immediate post-war period by examining policies and projects that sought to control the built environment. The techniques of spatial governance local governments deployed ranged from zoning large areas, to prohibiting certain types of business, display or activity and included control of land, buildings and even the air. The chapter argues that in the immediate post-war period local corporations attempted to expand their ability to control their cities in a holistic sense through the application and expansion of national planning legislation. Their aim was the assertion of a long-term, rational approach to the physical development of their cities, but their means were often mundane or small-scale: control of fun-fairs, the regulation of air or advertising as well as the siting of shops were all part of corporations holistic view of the functional city. These attempts were contested by the agencies of the national state, commercial elites and the inhabitants of the cities, illustrating the deeply contested character of modernity in the post-war.
Carolina Bank Muñoz
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501712883
- eISBN:
- 9781501714771
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501712883.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
Chapter 3 presents the analytical framework for the book. The warehouse union can be characterized by strategic democracy, whereas the retail unions are characterized by flexible militancy. The ...
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Chapter 3 presents the analytical framework for the book. The warehouse union can be characterized by strategic democracy, whereas the retail unions are characterized by flexible militancy. The warehouse workers have significant structural power, a tradition of political education, leaders with trade union experience, and a deeper culture of union democracy. As a result they have been particularly successful in achieving economic gains. The retail workers are newer unions with weaker social power but a strong culture of autonomy and militancy, and democratic structures. They have achieved some economic gains and have significantly and effectively challenged Walmart culture. These two models of unionism set up the case studies in chapters 4 and 5.Less
Chapter 3 presents the analytical framework for the book. The warehouse union can be characterized by strategic democracy, whereas the retail unions are characterized by flexible militancy. The warehouse workers have significant structural power, a tradition of political education, leaders with trade union experience, and a deeper culture of union democracy. As a result they have been particularly successful in achieving economic gains. The retail workers are newer unions with weaker social power but a strong culture of autonomy and militancy, and democratic structures. They have achieved some economic gains and have significantly and effectively challenged Walmart culture. These two models of unionism set up the case studies in chapters 4 and 5.
Carolina Bank Muñoz
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501712883
- eISBN:
- 9781501714771
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501712883.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
Chapter 5 discusses the retail workers in detail. The chapter analyzes workplace abuses, including human rights abuses and Walmart’s anti-union practices, organizing strategy, and outcomes for these ...
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Chapter 5 discusses the retail workers in detail. The chapter analyzes workplace abuses, including human rights abuses and Walmart’s anti-union practices, organizing strategy, and outcomes for these unions. The independent retail unions in the study are complex and multifaceted particularly because they represent over 4,000 workers. Although the two retail federations differ in their cultures and strategies, both can still be characterized by flexible militancy. Their structural location, expansive geography, on the ground flexibility, and militancy shape their outcomes and give these unions the capacity to push back Walmart culture.Less
Chapter 5 discusses the retail workers in detail. The chapter analyzes workplace abuses, including human rights abuses and Walmart’s anti-union practices, organizing strategy, and outcomes for these unions. The independent retail unions in the study are complex and multifaceted particularly because they represent over 4,000 workers. Although the two retail federations differ in their cultures and strategies, both can still be characterized by flexible militancy. Their structural location, expansive geography, on the ground flexibility, and militancy shape their outcomes and give these unions the capacity to push back Walmart culture.
Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262035750
- eISBN:
- 9780262338332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035750.003.0016
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
This chapter investigates the history of the ubiquitous yet banal Automated Teller Machine, or ATM. There is no single inventor of the ATM. Rather, it emerged through innovation around the globe and ...
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This chapter investigates the history of the ubiquitous yet banal Automated Teller Machine, or ATM. There is no single inventor of the ATM. Rather, it emerged through innovation around the globe and across the industry. In order to build a successful ATM system, engineers and bankers had to overcome challenges that ranged from security and authorization to weather-proofing electronics. This chapter surveys some of those developments. Increasingly, ATMs are being designed to offer a variety of services beyond dispensing cash. In the future, the ATM may prove to an important site of automated retail banking and consumer financial services.Less
This chapter investigates the history of the ubiquitous yet banal Automated Teller Machine, or ATM. There is no single inventor of the ATM. Rather, it emerged through innovation around the globe and across the industry. In order to build a successful ATM system, engineers and bankers had to overcome challenges that ranged from security and authorization to weather-proofing electronics. This chapter surveys some of those developments. Increasingly, ATMs are being designed to offer a variety of services beyond dispensing cash. In the future, the ATM may prove to an important site of automated retail banking and consumer financial services.
Wanda Rushing
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832998
- eISBN:
- 9781469605548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807895610_rushing.10
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the history of Carnival Memphis, which celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2006. Members of the original Carnival association organized in 1931 during the throes ...
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This chapter discusses the history of Carnival Memphis, which celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2006. Members of the original Carnival association organized in 1931 during the throes of the Great Depression. They intended to showcase Memphis to the region and the world as a modern, progressive city capable of hosting a festival promoting commerce, community, and celebration. Carnival founders included the presidents of the Retail Clothiers Association, the Cotton Exchange, and the Junior League. Supported by the directors of the Cotton Exchange, they tapped into the city's nineteenth-century commercial and social roots to find business sponsors and festival themes. Cotton Carnival founders succeeded in fostering civic participation, boosting community identity, attracting spectators and media attention, and promoting the region's most vital economic product at the time—cotton.Less
This chapter discusses the history of Carnival Memphis, which celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2006. Members of the original Carnival association organized in 1931 during the throes of the Great Depression. They intended to showcase Memphis to the region and the world as a modern, progressive city capable of hosting a festival promoting commerce, community, and celebration. Carnival founders included the presidents of the Retail Clothiers Association, the Cotton Exchange, and the Junior League. Supported by the directors of the Cotton Exchange, they tapped into the city's nineteenth-century commercial and social roots to find business sponsors and festival themes. Cotton Carnival founders succeeded in fostering civic participation, boosting community identity, attracting spectators and media attention, and promoting the region's most vital economic product at the time—cotton.
Karl Raitz and Nancy O’Malley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813136646
- eISBN:
- 9780813141343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813136646.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
North of Houston Creek the road enters Paris, county seat of Bourbon County and the third largest urban place on the road (pop. 8,553 in 2010). This chapter provides an interpretation of this ...
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North of Houston Creek the road enters Paris, county seat of Bourbon County and the third largest urban place on the road (pop. 8,553 in 2010). This chapter provides an interpretation of this transitional landscape. Two centuries ago basic geographical decisions as to farm and town location were couched in straightforward pragmatics. Farmsteads required a year-round fresh water supply, standing timber for fuel, fencing, and construction materials, and open expanses of fertile land. Prime town sites combined access to water, fuel and construction wood, overland roads, and streams that, if not navigable, had flow sufficient to power a grist or saw mill. Paris was sited between Houston and Stoner Creeks and the Maysville Road became Main Street. Merchants established retail stores along Main Street, and burley tobacco farmers marketed their crops at rail-side warehouses.Less
North of Houston Creek the road enters Paris, county seat of Bourbon County and the third largest urban place on the road (pop. 8,553 in 2010). This chapter provides an interpretation of this transitional landscape. Two centuries ago basic geographical decisions as to farm and town location were couched in straightforward pragmatics. Farmsteads required a year-round fresh water supply, standing timber for fuel, fencing, and construction materials, and open expanses of fertile land. Prime town sites combined access to water, fuel and construction wood, overland roads, and streams that, if not navigable, had flow sufficient to power a grist or saw mill. Paris was sited between Houston and Stoner Creeks and the Maysville Road became Main Street. Merchants established retail stores along Main Street, and burley tobacco farmers marketed their crops at rail-side warehouses.
Nancy L. Rose
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226138022
- eISBN:
- 9780226138169
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226138169.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic Systems
This chapter discusses regulation of the retail securities and investments industry, written for and from the perspective of an industrial organization economist. It describes the economic size and ...
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This chapter discusses regulation of the retail securities and investments industry, written for and from the perspective of an industrial organization economist. It describes the economic size and scope of this industry, and reviews the sources of market failure that create an economic rationale for regulation, focusing on information imperfections that cause agency conflicts, and potential limits on investor processing, monitoring and oversight. After reviewing the laws and regulatory institutions that comprise the core of modern securities regulation, the chapter examines four regulatory issues with parallels in other industries. First is the question of price regulation versus disclosure of investment management fees, an ongoing debate particularly for the mutual fund sector. Next is the role of antitrust policy and agency regulation in disciplining firm behaviour, especially when regulatory capture may be a concern. Third is the interplay between firm boundaries and conflicts of interest, which were scrutinized in the creation and repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. Fourth is the effects of competition when quality is not observed, and the potential role for minimum quality standards and regulatory oversight in this setting. The conclusion highlights the recurring role that the market and regulatory failures it describes play in financial market failures.Less
This chapter discusses regulation of the retail securities and investments industry, written for and from the perspective of an industrial organization economist. It describes the economic size and scope of this industry, and reviews the sources of market failure that create an economic rationale for regulation, focusing on information imperfections that cause agency conflicts, and potential limits on investor processing, monitoring and oversight. After reviewing the laws and regulatory institutions that comprise the core of modern securities regulation, the chapter examines four regulatory issues with parallels in other industries. First is the question of price regulation versus disclosure of investment management fees, an ongoing debate particularly for the mutual fund sector. Next is the role of antitrust policy and agency regulation in disciplining firm behaviour, especially when regulatory capture may be a concern. Third is the interplay between firm boundaries and conflicts of interest, which were scrutinized in the creation and repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. Fourth is the effects of competition when quality is not observed, and the potential role for minimum quality standards and regulatory oversight in this setting. The conclusion highlights the recurring role that the market and regulatory failures it describes play in financial market failures.
Jesse LeCavalier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816693313
- eISBN:
- 9781452955360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693313.003.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
The introduction of The Rule of Logistics establishes logistics as the way to understand Walmart’s architecture. It outlines some of the key concerns of the book before providing a portrait of the ...
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The introduction of The Rule of Logistics establishes logistics as the way to understand Walmart’s architecture. It outlines some of the key concerns of the book before providing a portrait of the company as much more than just a retailer.Less
The introduction of The Rule of Logistics establishes logistics as the way to understand Walmart’s architecture. It outlines some of the key concerns of the book before providing a portrait of the company as much more than just a retailer.
Jesse LeCavalier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816693313
- eISBN:
- 9781452955360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693313.003.0003
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
The second chapter examines Walmart’s collection of building types to show how new technologies related to information production and management enrolled architecture into logistical systems with ...
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The second chapter examines Walmart’s collection of building types to show how new technologies related to information production and management enrolled architecture into logistical systems with formal, spatial, and organizational implications.Less
The second chapter examines Walmart’s collection of building types to show how new technologies related to information production and management enrolled architecture into logistical systems with formal, spatial, and organizational implications.
Jesse LeCavalier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816693313
- eISBN:
- 9781452955360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693313.003.0006
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
The fifth chapter returns to Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to investigate the urban consequences of the region’s transformation because of the concentration of wealth and ...
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The fifth chapter returns to Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to investigate the urban consequences of the region’s transformation because of the concentration of wealth and management expertise generated by the retailer.Less
The fifth chapter returns to Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to investigate the urban consequences of the region’s transformation because of the concentration of wealth and management expertise generated by the retailer.
Jesse LeCavalier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816693313
- eISBN:
- 9781452955360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816693313.003.0007
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
The conclusion of The Rule of Logistics considers some of the implications of logistics for architectural form, the roots of logistics in desire, and infrastructure as a site of collective investment ...
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The conclusion of The Rule of Logistics considers some of the implications of logistics for architectural form, the roots of logistics in desire, and infrastructure as a site of collective investment and imagination.Less
The conclusion of The Rule of Logistics considers some of the implications of logistics for architectural form, the roots of logistics in desire, and infrastructure as a site of collective investment and imagination.
Lane Windham
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469632070
- eISBN:
- 9781469632094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632070.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter features a successful union organizing effort among 5300 women and men at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington, DC. It explores retail workers’ demands for unions and ...
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This chapter features a successful union organizing effort among 5300 women and men at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington, DC. It explores retail workers’ demands for unions and economic security, even as the retail industry’s labor standards declined, and highlights 1970s labor activism among female, young and African-American workers. Newly uncovered anti-union lawyer’s documents reveal employers’ union busting tactics in retail.Less
This chapter features a successful union organizing effort among 5300 women and men at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington, DC. It explores retail workers’ demands for unions and economic security, even as the retail industry’s labor standards declined, and highlights 1970s labor activism among female, young and African-American workers. Newly uncovered anti-union lawyer’s documents reveal employers’ union busting tactics in retail.
