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Author : Rebekah Peeples Massengill
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814763340
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Wal-Mart Wars written by Rebekah Peeples Massengill and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wal-Mart is America’s largest retailer. The national chain of stores is a powerful stand-in of both the promise and perils of free market capitalism. Yet it is also often the target of public outcry for its labor practices, to say nothing of class-action lawsuits, and a central symbol in America’s increasingly polarized political discourse over consumption, capitalism and government regulations. In many ways the battle over Wal-Mart is the battle between “Main Street” and “Wall Street” as the fate of workers under globalization and the ability of the private market to effectively distribute precious goods like health care take center stage. In Wal-Mart Wars, Rebekah Massengill shows that the economic debates are not about dollars and cents, but instead represent a conflict over the deployment of deeper symbolic ideas about freedom, community, family, and citizenship. Wal-Mart Wars argues that the family is not just a culture wars issue to be debated with regard to same-sex marriage or the limits of abortion rights; rather, the family is also an idea that shapes the ways in which both conservative and progressive activists talk about economic issues, and in the process, construct different moral frameworks for evaluating capitalism and its most troubling inequalities. With particular attention to political activism and the role of big business to the overall economy, Massengill shows that the fight over the practices of this multi-billion dollar corporation can provide us with important insight into the dreams and realities of American capitalism. Rebekah Peeples Massengill is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University.
Author : Richard K. Vedder
Publisher : A E I Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wal-Mart Revolution written by Richard K. Vedder and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wal-Mart is under attack--from labor unions, urban planners, globalization critics, and community activists. Looking at Wal-Mart, the authors review conditions before and after Wal-Mart entered a local market and look more broadly at Wal-Mart's impact on wages, productivity growth and inflation. Vedder and Cox show that the retailer has been a force for good.
Author : John Dicker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101143444
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The United States of Wal-Mart written by John Dicker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest-and most reviled-corporation, which reveals that while Wal-Mart's dominance may be providing consumers with cheap goods and plentiful jobs, it may also be breeding a culture of discontent. It employs one of every 115 American workers. If it were a nation-state, it would be one of the world's top twenty economies. With yearly sales of nearly $260 billion and an average way of $8 an hour, Wal-Mart represents an unprecedented-and perhaps unstoppable-force in capitalism. And there have been few corporations that have evoked the same levels of reverence and ire. The United States of Wal-Mart is a hard-hitting examination of how Sam Walton's empire has infiltrated not just the geography of America but also its consciousness. Peeling away layers of propaganda and politics, investigative journalist John Dicker reveals an American (and, increasingly, a global) story that has no clear-cut villains or heroes-one that could be the confused, complicated story of America itself. Pitched battles between economic progress and quality of life, between the preservation of regional identity and national homogeneity, and between low prices and the dignity of the American worker are beginning to coalesce into an all-out war to define our modern era. And, Dicker argues, Wal-Mart is winning. Revealing that the company's business practices have been shaping American culture, including the nation's social, political, and industrial policy, The United States of Wal-Mart provides fresh insight into a controversy that isn't going away.
Author : Charles Fishman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110121810X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Wal-Mart Effect written by Charles Fishman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highly readable, incisive, precise, and even elegant." —San Francisco Chronicle "Insightful." —BusinessWeek Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g., Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004 its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of the Fortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping our lives.
Author : 3M Company
Publisher : 3m Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Century of Innovation written by 3M Company and published by 3m Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of 3M voices, memories, facts and experiences from the company's first 100 years.
Author : Dan Fagin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567511628
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Toxic Deception written by Dan Fagin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two prize-winning investigative journalists expose the secretive world of the chemical giants, unearthing questions disturbing enough to shake America's faith in the household products that permeate its daily life.
Author : Jack Doyle
Publisher : Environmental Health
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Trespass Against Us written by Jack Doyle and published by Environmental Health. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exposé of one of the world's deadliest chemical companies.
Author : Charles H. Hood
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456456009
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Walmart's Egonomics Always written by Charles H. Hood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fore/Word review describes this book as being "incredible." It then bestows its highest award, FIVE STARS (out of five), a rare and momentous rating for any book, much less for the product of a first-time author. The Kirkus Review states: A well-crafted personal tale of business gone bad ... Hood documents the sorry story of how at best Wal-Mart management ineptly implemented a promotional program they had agreed to support, and at worst, sabotaged it because of a perverted ego and profit-driven arrogance ... a true corporate David and Goliath story ... after reading this book, it will likely be difficult for the reader not to accept the author's claim that Wal-Mart is a corporate villain." Gary L. Richardson is frequently described as being Oklahoma's "top gun" trial attorney. In the past, he has successfully represented clients against Wal-Mart. These trials, in combination with his heavy amount of preparatory research, have left Gary with an intimate knowledge of Wal-Mart's frequently harmful business practices. Gary wrote the book's "Foreword." In it he states: "I have found Chuck's story to be fascinating, and one all of America should read ..." And, this recommendation was not as a result of Gary being our filing attorney. Our filing attorney was Tom Mars, who today serves as Wal-Mart's executive vice president and chief legal counsel, heading Wal-Mart's entire legal department. To most readers this story will prove to be a very surprising expose, as it chronicles Wal-Mart's continued, unpredictable and too-oft odious actions -- all of which led to the filing of a $40 million lawsuit against Wal-Mart for "breach of contracts and corporate sabotage." This suit was settled in less than nine months for more than half of the filing amount -- but an amount equivalent to the debt that had been incurred in the company's attempts to fulfill their contracts with Wal-Mart. This book is a factual account of the attitudes, ego-driven actions and what we found to be the apparently normal business practices that lie behind Wal-Mart's constant, outward facades of the feel-good smiley face and the powerful banner that touts their "everyday low prices." But that was not the end of the story. Once the suit was settled, Wal-Mart set out on a path of retribution. This in combination with the damages they had inflicted on our company, previously, led to the company being forced to close its doors, releasing its more than one hundred employees. This is a story that will allow the reader to experience first-hand, the lies and greed-driven acts perpetrated upon a tiny company -- by the "Goliath" of the retail industry.
Author : Manfred Krafft
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540720030
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Retailing in the 21st Century written by Manfred Krafft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With crisp and insightful contributions from 47 of the world’s leading experts in various facets of retailing, Retailing in the 21st Century offers in one book a compendium of state-of-the-art, cutting-edge knowledge to guide successful retailing in the new millennium. In our competitive world, retailing is an exciting, complex and critical sector of business in most developed as well as emerging economies. Today, the retailing industry is being buffeted by a number of forces simultaneously, for example the growth of online retailing and the advent of ‘radio frequency identification’ (RFID) technology. Making sense of it all is not easy but of vital importance to retailing practitioners, analysts and policymakers.
Author : Rick Wartzman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 154175798X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Still Broke written by Rick Wartzman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How America’s biggest company began taking better care of its workers--and why such efforts will never be enough. Fifteen years ago, Walmart was the most controversial company in America. By offering incredibly low prices, it had come to dominate the retail landscape. But with this dominance came a suite of ethical concerns. Walmart was accused of wiping out mom-and-pop businesses across the country; ruthlessly pressuring suppliers to cut costs, even if it meant closing up U.S. factories and moving production overseas; and, above all, not taking adequate care of its own employees, who were paid so little that many wound up on public assistance. Today, while Walmart remains America's largest employer, the picture is very different. It has become an environmental leader among businesses, and has taken many other steps to use its immense scale to have a positive social impact. Most notably, its starting wage has risen from $7.25 to $12, and employee benefits have improved. With internal and external threats to its business looming, the company began to change directions in 2005—a transformation that accelerated in 2014, with the arrival of CEO Doug McMillon. By undertaking such large-scale change without a legal mandate to do so, Walmart has joined a number of major corporations that say they are dedicated to practicing a new, socially conscious form of capitalism. In Still Broke, award-winning author Rick Wartzman goes inside the company's transformation, showing in novelistic detail how the company has gotten to where it is. Yet he also asks a critical question: is it enough? With a still-simmering public debate around the minimum wage and widespread movements by workers demanding better treatment, how far will $12 an hour go in today's economy? Or even $15? Or Walmart’s average wage, which now hovers above $17—but, even so, doesn’t pencil out to so much as $32,000 a year for a fulltime worker? In the richest nation on earth, how did the bar get set so low? How did America find itself relying on an army of low-wage workers without ever acknowledging their most basic needs? And if Walmart's brand of change is the best we have, how can we ever expect to build a healthy society? With unparalleled access to the key executives and change-makers at Walmart, Still Broke does more than document a remarkable business makeover. It interrogates the role of business in American life, and asks what the future of our economy and country can be—and whose job it is to make it.
Author : Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780835246422
Total Pages : 3274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Books In Print 2004-2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199753202
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Polluters written by Benjamin Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today--smog, pesticides, lead, chromium, chlorinated solvents, asbestos, even global warming--were already recognized by chemists, engineers, doctors, and business managers of that era. A few courageous individuals spoke out without compromise, but still more ignored scientific truth in pursuit of money and prestige. The Polluters reveals at last the crucial decisions that allowed environmental issues to be trumped by political agendas. It spotlights the leaders of the chemical industry and describes how they applied their economic and political power to prevent the creation of an effective system of environmental regulation. Research was slanted, unwelcome discoveries were suppressed, and friendly experts were placed in positions of influence, as science was subverted to serve the interests of business. The story of The Polluters is one that needs to be told, an unflinching depiction of the onslaught of chemical pollution and the chemical industry's unwillingness to face up to its devastating effects.
Author : Donald Roberts
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608443760
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Excellent Powder written by Donald Roberts and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the world's most successful public health insecticide, saving millions upon millions of lives from preventable, insect-borne diseases. Yet despite decades of use and thousands of studies on its effects, DDT remains the world's most misunderstood chemical. Orchestrated, well-financed, earnest, but myth-based campaigns forced most countries to ban DDT without scientific justification. These campaigns created a climate of irrational fear and ignorant prejudice around DDT and have condemned millions of the world's most vulnerable people to death. The Excellent Powder dispels these myths and sets the record straight. It reviews the fascinating history of this chemical that changed the world. It analyzes the scientific evidence and explains how and why DDT safely protects millions from the threat of malaria and other diseases. Finally, it documents how many activists choose to ignore this evidence, and how their ignorant prejudices continues to undermine disease control programs. "DDT has been the main agent in eradicating malaria ... and of having saved at least 2 billion people in the world without causing the loss of a single life by poisoning from DDT alone." World Health Organization, 1969 "The ban on DDT, founded on erroneous or fraudulent reports . . . has caused millions of deaths ..." 7 Gordon Edwards, scientist & entomologist, 2004
Author : Roger Chapman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765622505
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars written by Roger Chapman and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2010 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters from a cross-section of Japanese citizens to a leading Japanese newspaper, relating their experiences and thoughts of the Pacific War.
Author : Marie-Monique Robin
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595589090
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Our Daily Poison written by Marie-Monique Robin and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last thirty years, we have seen an increase in rates of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, reproductive disorders, and diabetes, particularly in developed countries. At the same time, since the end of World War II approximately 100,000 synthetic chemical molecules have invaded our environment--and our food chain. In Our Daily Poison, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin investigates the links between these two concerning trends, revealing how corporate interests and our ignorance about these invisible poisons may be costing us our lives. The result of a rigorous two-year-long investigation that took Robin across three continents (North America, Europe, and Asia), Our Daily Poison documents the many ways in which we encounter a shocking array of chemicals in our everyday lives--from the pesticides that blanket our crops to the additives and plastics that contaminate our food--and their effects on our bodies over time. Gathering as evidence scientific studies, testimonies of international regulatory agencies, and interviews with farm workers suffering from acute chronic poisoning, Robin makes a compelling case for outrage and action.
Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252986
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Seeing Like a State written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
