Sign-In
Cart
Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy
Hardcover
Art HistoryRussian & Former Soviet Union Art
Publisher Price: $25.00
ISBN13: 9780226828701
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America's franchise economy means for its workers.
Walk into a McDonald's anywhere in the United States, and it will be identical to every other McDonald's in the country. Yet, that particular store is almost certainly owned and operated by an independent franchisee. While McDonald's presents an image of centralized uniformity to the consumer, it shows a different face to the small business owners operating its stores under its control and the workers preparing its product to its standards. How then does McDonald's--and its big business peers--manage to be two things at once?
In this revelatory work, economist Brian Callaci shows how franchisors have altered the legal treatment of corporations in their favor through a decades-long crusade of lobbying and litigation. Their efforts subsequently unleashed a slew of legal and economic sins upon the US economy and labor force, allowing multinational corporations to control continent-spanning empires while outsourcing employment and scapegoating legal responsibilities onto small businesses. The result: the unfettered growth of some of America's most recognizable businesses, at the aggregate expense of America's workers.
Remarkable in both its scale and synthesis, Callaci's story is the first chronicle of this business movement--initially resisted by US courts before experiencing a dramatic reversal of fortune after decades of campaigning by some of America's most established entrepreneurs. An urgent and erudite history, Chains of Command reveals how the US labor market was tamed one small business at a time.
Also in
Russian & Former Soviet Union Art
Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 45th Ed.
Chaubin, Frédéric
Hardcover
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935
Scheijen, Sjeng
Hardcover
Russian Art Coloring Book: Russian Masterpieces from Shishkin to Vasnetsov
Smolniy, Nicolas
Paperback
Russian Impressionists and Post-Impressionists: Light, color, and landscapes of a changing nation
Guerman, Mikhail
Hardcover
Ivan Chichkine: Les forêts russes et la beauté silencieuse
Charles, Victoria
Shuvalova, Irina
Hardcover
The Afterlife of Discarded Objects: Memory and Forgetting in a Culture of Waste
Guruianu, Andrei
Andrievskikh, Natalia
Paperback
The Russian painters of water: Seascapes and maritime visions in Russian painting
Lyall, Sutherland
Hardcover
Culture and Communication: Signs in Flux. an Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works
Lotman, Yuri
Paperback
The Peoples of the Great North: Inuit, Sami, and the traditions of Arctic peoples
Federova, Marina
Gorbatcheva, Valentina
Hardcover
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Tlostanova, Madina
Paperback
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde
Weld, Sara Pankenier
Paperback
Iconically Speaking: Andrei Rublev, The Old Testiment Trinity, Icons, and Cathedrals
Wilson, Elaine L.
Paperback
Google Drive And Docs In 1 Hour: Beginners Guide to Mastering Google Drive and Docs with Illustrations
Richard, Derrick
Paperback
Beyond Fabergé: Imperial Russian Jewelry
Betteley, Marie
Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye, David
Hardcover
Fade from Red: The Cold War Ex-Enemy in Russian and American Film 1990-2005
Helena Goscilo, Margaret B. Goscilo
Paperback
The Postsocialist Contemporary: The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe After 1989
Esanu, Octavian
Hardcover
Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989
Esanu, Octavian
Hardcover
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde
Weld, Sara Pankenier
Hardcover
Picturing Russia's Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting
Leigh, Allison
Paperback
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Tlostanova, Madina
Hardcover
She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation
Mjolsness, Lora
Leigh, Michele
Hardcover
She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation
Mjolsness, Lora
Leigh, Michele
Paperback
Culture and Communication: Signs in Flux. an Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works
Lotman, Yuri
Hardcover
Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square
Forgács, Éva
Hardcover
The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde
Gurianova, Nina
Hardcover
Vagabonding Masks (Eng): The Italian Commedia Dell'arte in the Russian Artistic Imagination
Partan, Olga
Hardcover
Art Of Siberia: How the peoples of Siberia carved out their world between ice, fire, and spirit
Federova, Marina
Gorbatcheva, Valentina
Hardcover
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival
Taroutina, Maria
Hardcover
Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia
Schönle, Andreas
Hardcover
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival
Taroutina, Maria
Paperback
Russian and Ukraine War: The potential for escalation and the risk of wider regional conflict
Nse, Sifon
Lavrentiev, Egor
Paperback
Encyclopédie des peintres russes et soviétiques. Vol. I: A-D (planches illustrées)
Page, Alexandre
Paperback
Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism
Walworth, Catherine
Paperback
Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists
Shabanov, Andrey
Paperback
Увлеченность искусство&#
Мильман, В&#
Paperback
Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture
Harte, Tim
Hardcover