{"product_id":"charismatic-capitalism-nicole-woolsey-biggart-9780226047867","title":"Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 instead that less rational organizations built on social networks may actually be more economically viable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicole Woolsey Biggart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226047865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226047867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.55w x 0.55d","brand":"Nicole Woolsey Biggart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946333896959,"sku":"9780226047867","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4316b7a1-5436-43ba-a232-064b8f506c7a.jpg?v=1681512572","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charismatic-capitalism-nicole-woolsey-biggart-9780226047867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}