Description
Wal-Mart is the world's largest company and it sets the standard--both social and commercial--for a huge swath of the global economy. In this probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein shows how the company's success has spread evangelical Protestantism into the workplace, made South China an American workshop, and pushed American politics to the right. At the same time, he anticipates a day of reckoning, when challenges to the Wal-Mart way, at home and abroad, are likely to change the far-flung empire. Insightful and original, The Retail Revolution gives a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has reshaped international commerce.
Author: Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 06/08/2010
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780312429683
ISBN10: 0312429681
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History | General
- Business & Economics | Industries | Retailing
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
About the Author
Nelson Lichtenstein is one of the country's leading experts on labor and politics and the editor of a much-cited collection of essays on Wal-Mart. A professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, he is also the author of several highly regarded books on American history, including the award-winning Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit.