The ghetto marketplace / Edited by Frederick D. Sturdivant.
| Author/creator | Sturdivant, Frederick D. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Free Press, [1969] |
| Description | xvii, 316 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Riot report, by B. Weber.--The marketplace; participants and problems. Low-income life styles, by L. M. Irelan and A. Besner.--How the poor spend their money, by H. H. Lamale.--Consumer practices of the poor, by L. G. Richards.--The merchant and the low-income consumer, by D. Caplovitz.--Economic report on installment credit and retail sales practices of District of Columbia retailers, by Federal Trade Commission.--Poverty, minorities, and consumer exploitation, by F. D. Sturdivant and W. T. Wilhelm.--Prices in poor neighborhoods, by P. Groom.--White withdrawal; ghetto merchants shy away from civic ties in areas they serve, from Wall street journal.--Negro and Jew, by P. Jacobs.--Better deal for ghetto shoppers, by F. D. Sturdivant.--Corrective action and reaction. Is war on poverty becoming war on business? By P. Hencke.--Violence in the city; an end or a beginning, by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots.--Should supermarkets take a new look at urban areas? from Food topics.--A business development program for our poverty areas, by R. F. Kennedy.--The retailers, the ghetto, and the government, by M. Hall and B. Williams.--After the riots; a position paper for retailing by R. Rosenthall.--Deception in the marketplace of the poor; the role of the Federal Trade Commission, by M. G. Jones.--The limits of Black capitalism, by F. D. Sturdivant. |
| Local note | Little-109580 - $7.95 |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: p. 291-305. |
| LCCN | 77081932 |