The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization

by Gordon Laird

Book Overview

In this book, Laird traces the bargain - that touchstone of American culture - from its humble dollar-store origins to its recent role as global juggernaut. Along the way, he discovers that much of today's collapsing consumer economy is dangerously dependant upon unsustainable labor, transport, resources, trade imbalances, and consumer debt. Through interviews with everyone from box store executives to illegal immigrants, a single question emerges:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230614914
• ISBN13: 9780230614918
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"