Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

Arkansas Historical Quarterly;  October 1, 2006 ;   Striffler, Steve;   739 words ...Wal-Mart: The Face of...Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. (New York...collected by Nelson Lichtenstein in Wal-Mart: The Face of...corporation. Nelson Lichtenstein starts with...and new about Wal-Mart. As he writes...

UC Santa Barbara to Host National Conference on Wal-Mart as Model for 21st...

AScribe Business & Economics News Service;  March 24, 2004 ;     658 words ......Representatives of Wal-Mart have been invited...conference organizer Nelson Lichtenstein at nelson@history...General Motors to Wal-Mart: Templates for an Era, Nelson Lichtenstein, conference...will include Wal-Mart as its prime...The Effects of ...

THE WORST CORPORATE MISCREANT: Wal-Mart's actions, policies hurt more than...

CCPA Monitor;  May 1, 2005 ;   Scarth, Todd;   787 words ......and 1.4 million employees, Wal-Mart is not only the largest...also what labour historian Nelson Lichtenstein calls a "template company." In other words, Wal-Mart is now so successful and...whether they are inspired by Wal-Mart's innovations, cowed by its...remarked, "No ...

Academia chimes in on debate over retailing behemoth; Is the retailer good...

Advertising Age;  November 21, 2005 ;   Frazier, Mya;   780 words ......wholesale prices. The retailer stopped all that. Wal-Mart simply came in and started charging about...Riverside, decried the polarized nature of the Wal-Mart debate, particularly its isolated focus on Wal-Mart's store workers by labor unions. We need much...longshoreman are affected ...

The goliath that reshaped America; Did Wal-Mart bring us a triumph of...

The Christian Science Monitor;  January 17, 2006 ;     787 words ......ExxonMobil this year, owing to oil prices), Wal-Mart invites debate like no other company. The...whom you ask. But one point is not disputed: Wal-Mart is an unrelenting shifter of the retail...Texas newspaperman Bill Quinn's 1998 book How Wal-Mart is Destroying America (and the ...

Big, Big Box: Wal-Mart Supercenters ready to take on Northern California

Oakland Tribune;  December 21, 2003 ;   Abigail Goldman, Los Angeles Times;   787 words ......is the largest grocer in the United States. Wal-Mart's decisions influence wages and working conditions...headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., almost as if Wal-Mart were a sovereign nation. The company has prospered...benefits every time they push a cart through Wal-Mart's checkout ...

Readings

The Washington Post;  January 8, 2006 ;     156 words ......General Motors before it, Wal-Mart has become the "template...of its generation, argues Nelson Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein is not only...decidedly Marxist bent, and in Wal-Mart, The Face of Twenty-First...respectful and insightful about Wal-Mart's development and ...

The behemoth from Bentonville; Wal-Mart.(Hidden weaknesses in the world's...

The Economist (US);  February 25, 2006 ;   Fishman, Charles;   787 words ......which the consumer is such a powerful king. Wal-Mart panders to no one but its customers, mostly...recent film about the company, the high cost of Wal-Mart's low prices has become too much to bear...Inglewood voted(almost unprecedentedly) to keep Wal-Mart out, partly in the ...

WAL-MART: A GIANT ENABLED BY PUBLIC.(EDITORIAL)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  February 17, 2006 ;   Bergin, Mary;   646 words ......understated factor in Wal-Mart's annoying success: This...things weren't a big deal, Wal-Mart wouldn't have grown to...How the High Cost of Wal-Mart's Everyday Low Prices...with other media sources. Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century...political/economics historian ...

Scholars at California Conference Analyze Wal-Mart's Impact on Society.

The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  April 14, 2004 ;     780 words ......SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world...discussing and analyzing Wal-Mart and its affect on society...century Americans, said Nelson Lichtenstein, a professor of history...workers was provoked by Wal-Mart's downward competitive...Inglewood vote ...

Examining Wal-Mart under the microscope

International Herald Tribune;  April 20, 2004 ;   Steven Greenhouse;   787 words ......04-20-2004 We already know that Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer...week for a conference on Wal-Mart came looking for more...scholars here were examining Wal-Mart for insights into the...University of Delaware, said, ''Wal-Mart has come to represent...at its stores each ...

A Movement Against Wal-Mart?

Democratic Left;  April 1, 2006 ;   Ford, Glen; Gamble, Peter;   787 words ......and absent an understanding of how and where Wal-Mart fits in the deepening national and global...more hydra-headed the beast-in this case, the Wal-Mart behemoth-the more complex are its effects...multitudinous social sectors that are injured by Wal-Mart's loathsome presence be set ...

Wal-Mart debated at UCLA

University Wire;  June 7, 2005 ;   Ari Bloomekatz;   787 words ......leaders, academics and politicians to discuss Wal-Mart's business strategies and the company's effects...about such topics because of battles over Wal-Mart's continued growth in Southern California...this country, in the world at this stage, Wal-Mart is leading the pack now, but it's ...

Wal Mart's culture of control "non-negotiable".

Canadian Dimension;  May 1, 2005 ;   Gondziola, Jason;   787 words ......16,000 cheering shareholders participated in Wal-Mart's annual shareholder's meeting. The event, which...of cheering and chanting from the countless Wal-Mart associates, who flew into the area from the...mind was the outlandish success of Our Company. Wal-Mart reported U.S. $256 ...

Wal-Mart to Enter Urban Markets; Retailer Says It Will Help Local...

The Washington Post;  April 5, 2006 ;   Ylan Q. Mui;   787 words ......surrounding neighborhood with traffic. But if Wal-Mart wants to continue to grow in the United States...strategy comes with a new set of tactics. Wal-Mart chief executive H. Lee Scott Jr. said the...small businesses withstand competition with Wal-Mart by teaching them how to do ...