Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality

... what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture. ... The author decides to go to two different toy stores. She chooses one toy store that services mainly White customeers of higher socio-economic status, the store contains “better” quality of products, has a nicer shopping ...