Note: Previous ed.: Los Angeles, Calif.; London: Pine Forge, 2011. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , An introduction to McDonaldization , Precursors: bureaucracy and Max Weber's theory of rationality, irrationality, and the iron cage , Islands of the living dead: the social geography of McDonaldization , On mass distribution: a case study of chain stores in the restaurant industry , A sociology of rib joints , McDonald's as a Disneyized institution , Urgent dreams: climbing, rationalization, and ambivalence , A conversation with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast food nation ; McDonaldization: the major criticism , McDonaldization of America's police, courts, and corrections , McDonaldization of the sex industries? The business of sex , McDonaldizing men's bodies? Slimming, associated (ir)rationalities and resistances , McDonaldization and the family , McSchools for McWorld? Mediating global pressures with a McDonaldizing education policy response , The de-McDonaldization of the internet , Multinational retailers in China: proliferating 'McJobs' or developing skills? , Supersizing farms: the McDonaldization of agriculture , From burgers to biodiversity: the McDonaldization of on-farm nature conservation in the UK , From creeds to burgers: religious control, spiritual search, and the future of the world , McCitizens: risk, coolness, and irony in contemporary politics , Cathedrals of consumption: rationalization, enchantment, and disenchantment , The McDonaldization thesis and cruise tourism , A case of McDonald's restaurant: the built environment and the perpetuation of the phenomenon of globalisation , Credit cards, fast-food restaurants, and rationalization , Jihad vs. McWorld , September 11, 2001: mass murder and its roots in the symbolism of American consumer culture , The McLibel trial story , José Bové vs. McDonald's: the making of a national hero in the French anti-globalization movement , The emergence of Slow Food: social entrepreneurship, local foods, and the Piedmont gastronomy cluster , Globalization and culture: three paradigms , McDonaldization and the global culture of consumption , Transnationalism, localization, and fast foods in East Asia , The McDonald's mosaic: globalization and diversity , Domesticating the French fry: McDonald's and consumerism in Moscow , Glocommodification: how the global consumes the local: McDonald's in Israel , Globalization and McDonaldization: does it all amount to ... nothing? , Globaloney , eBayization