Cleeland, Nancy,
The Wal-Mart Effect: Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63.... Nancy Cleeland and others. - Los Angeles Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 302, Business, 1522-3191; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: The Wal-Mart Effect: Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63..., Nov. 24, 2003; pp. A1+.
"When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. demands a lower price for the shirts and shorts it sells by the millions, the consequences are felt in a remote Chinese industrial town, at a port in Bangladesh and here in Honduras, under the corrugated metal roof of the Cosmos clothing factory." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article discusses how Wal-Mart's "size and obsession with shaving costs have made it a global economic force" whose "decisions affect wages, working conditions and manufacturing practices--even the price of a yard of denim--around the world."
1522-3191;
Wal-Mart Stores
Clothing trade--Developing countries
Competition, Unfair
Cost control
Discount houses (Retail trade)
Industrial suppliers
International business enterprises
International trade
Prices
Wages
Work environment
AC1.S5
050
The Wal-Mart Effect: Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63.... Nancy Cleeland and others. - Los Angeles Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 302, Business, 1522-3191; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: The Wal-Mart Effect: Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63..., Nov. 24, 2003; pp. A1+.
"When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. demands a lower price for the shirts and shorts it sells by the millions, the consequences are felt in a remote Chinese industrial town, at a port in Bangladesh and here in Honduras, under the corrugated metal roof of the Cosmos clothing factory." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article discusses how Wal-Mart's "size and obsession with shaving costs have made it a global economic force" whose "decisions affect wages, working conditions and manufacturing practices--even the price of a yard of denim--around the world."
1522-3191;
Wal-Mart Stores
Clothing trade--Developing countries
Competition, Unfair
Cost control
Discount houses (Retail trade)
Industrial suppliers
International business enterprises
International trade
Prices
Wages
Work environment
AC1.S5
050