Meyerson, Harold,
Can We Give America a Raise?: Wal-Mart Nation. Harold Meyerson. - American Prospect, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 48, Business, 1522-3191; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Can We Give America a Raise?: Wal-Mart Nation, Jan. 1, 2004; pp. 46.
The article discusses Wal-Mart, a "discount retailer and America's largest employer, with 1.4 million employees" (AMERICAN PROSPECT). The author claims that "with the US economy increasingly dominated by service-sector jobs, the wages of those jobs will determine whether America can remain a middle-class nation. Paying its workers an estimated $10 an hour less than the supermarket chains do, Wal-Mart presents a massive threat both to the nation's middle class and to the development of a global middle class."
1522-3191;
Wal-Mart Stores
Labor unions
Middle class
Service industries workers
Wages
Work environment
AC1.S5
050
Can We Give America a Raise?: Wal-Mart Nation. Harold Meyerson. - American Prospect, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 48, Business, 1522-3191; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Can We Give America a Raise?: Wal-Mart Nation, Jan. 1, 2004; pp. 46.
The article discusses Wal-Mart, a "discount retailer and America's largest employer, with 1.4 million employees" (AMERICAN PROSPECT). The author claims that "with the US economy increasingly dominated by service-sector jobs, the wages of those jobs will determine whether America can remain a middle-class nation. Paying its workers an estimated $10 an hour less than the supermarket chains do, Wal-Mart presents a massive threat both to the nation's middle class and to the development of a global middle class."
1522-3191;
Wal-Mart Stores
Labor unions
Middle class
Service industries workers
Wages
Work environment
AC1.S5
050