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The retail revolution : how Wal-Mart created a brave new world of business

Title
The retail revolution : how Wal-Mart created a brave new world of business / Nelson Lichtenstein.
Author
Lichtenstein, Nelson.
Publication
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.

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Description
311 pages; 25 cm
Summary
Insightful, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, "The Retail Revolution" draws on first-hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of how Wal-Mart has transformed international commerce.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-293) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Sam Walton's World -- Ch. 2. Supply and Command -- Ch. 3. The Corporate Culture -- Ch. 4. Beat Yesterday -- Ch. 5. Unions: Keep Out! -- Ch. 6. Wal-Mart's Long March to China -- Ch. 7. Discount Stores in Every Clime? -- Ch. 8. How Wal-Mart Makes the Rules -- Ch. 9. Wal-Mart Versus the World It Has Created.
ISBN
  • 9780805079661 (hc.)
  • 0805079661 (hc.)
LCCN
  • 2008051336
  • 40016969180
OCLC
  • 289067797
  • ocn289067797
  • SCSB-9212150
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries