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100			_aCleeland, Nancy,
245		4	_aThe Wal-Mart Effect: Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63.... _cNancy Cleeland and others.
260			_bLos Angeles Times, _c2003.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2004. _nArticle 302, _pBusiness, _x1522-3191;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
500			_aOriginally Published: The Wal-Mart Effect: Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63..., Nov. 24, 2003; pp. A1+.
520			_a"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."
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aClothing trade _zDeveloping countries
650			_aCompetition, Unfair
650			_aCost control
650			_aDiscount houses (Retail trade)
650			_aIndustrial suppliers
650			_aInternational business enterprises
650			_aInternational trade
650			_aPrices
650			_aWages
610			_aWal-Mart Stores
650			_aWork environment
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2004, _pBusiness. _x1522-3191;
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