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Mcdonald’s, Power, and Children

Ronald McDonald (Aka Ray Kroc) Does it All for You

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Part of the book series: Bold Visions in Educational Research ((BVER,volume 32))

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Cameron was a counter. He vomited nineteen times to San Francisco. He liked to count everything that he did. This had made Greer a little nervous when he first met up with Cameron years ago, but he’d gotten used to it by now.

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Kincheloe, J.L. (2011). Mcdonald’s, Power, and Children. In: Hayes, K., Steinberg, S.R., Tobin, K. (eds) Key Works in Critical Pedagogy. Bold Visions in Educational Research, vol 32. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-397-6_13

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