The Wal-Mart Effect: Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63.... Nancy Cleeland and others.
by Cleeland, Nancy; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 302Business. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Clothing trade -- Developing countries | Competition, Unfair | Cost control | Discount houses (Retail trade) | Industrial suppliers | International business enterprises | International trade | Prices | Wages | Wal-Mart Stores | Work environmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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