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, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, "The Retail Revolution" gives a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has reshaped international commerce.
- ISBN10 0312429681
- ISBN13 9780312429683
- Publish Date 8 June 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Picador USA
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English