{"id":48217,"date":"2026-05-12T21:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48217"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:46:29","slug":"book-chains-of-command-the-rise-and-cruel-reign-of-the-franchise-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/book-chains-of-command-the-rise-and-cruel-reign-of-the-franchise-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71VPimdeiFL._SY522_.jpg\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"title\">Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy\u00a0Hardcover<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Brian+Callaci&amp;text=Brian+Callaci&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books\">Brian Callaci<\/a>\u00a0(Author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chains-Command-Cruel-Franchise-Economy\/dp\/0226828700#\">See all formats and editions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America\u2019s franchise economy means for its workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walk into a McDonald\u2019s anywhere in the United States, and it will be identical to every other McDonald\u2019s in the country. Yet, that particular store is almost certainly owned and operated by an \u201cindependent\u201d franchisee. While McDonald\u2019s 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\u2019s\u2014and its big business peers\u2014manage to be two things at once?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s most recognizable businesses, at the aggregate expense of America\u2019s workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remarkable in both its scale and synthesis, Callaci\u2019s story is the first chronicle of this business movement\u2014initially resisted by US courts before experiencing a dramatic reversal of fortune after decades of campaigning by some of America\u2019s most established entrepreneurs. An urgent and erudite history,\u00a0<em>Chains of Command<\/em>\u00a0reveals how the US labor market was tamed one small business at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Amazon.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy\u00a0Hardcover by\u00a0Brian Callaci\u00a0(Author) See all formats and editions A surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America\u2019s franchise economy means for its workers. Walk into a McDonald\u2019s anywhere in the United States, and it&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/book-chains-of-command-the-rise-and-cruel-reign-of-the-franchise-economy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48218,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48217\/revisions\/48218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}