Can We Give America a Raise?: Wal-Mart Nation. Harold Meyerson.
by Meyerson, Harold; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 48Business. Publisher: American Prospect, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Labor unions | Middle class | Service industries workers | Wages | Wal-Mart Stores | Work environmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: 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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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