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... New Orleans has a Wal-Mart parking lot serving as a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center with perhaps ... , inspector general, Iraq, New Orleans, Person Career, President, Private, vice chairman, Wal-Mart, War ...

... mother and child by Dorothea Lange. There are enough contemporary Wal-Mart workers and photographers ... SCHADENFREUDEAN SLIP Boston The many progressive critics of Wal-Mart "enjoyed a bit ... in a Wittgenstein seminar why there wasn't a word in English for schadenfreude." Do the critics of Wal-Mart ...

... are absent, the human hunger for connection is fulfilled by "hanging out" at the Wal-Mart or roaming ... Career, Person Relation, Private, Social Issues, Technology, The Nation, Wal-Mart, Editorial, Christo ...

... attractive jobs"--from cleaning houses to clerking for Wal-Mart. Without a smidgen of condescension, she ... , public relations, Religion, Social Issues, Wal-Mart, Labor, Books & the Arts, Book, Cultural ...

... the backbone of the Internet. In counterpoint, one learns how Wal-Mart (of whose principles there's no need ... to be doing anything of loftier significance than getting Wal-Mart's suppliers to make deliveries just a few ... , United States, Wal-Mart, Books & the Arts, Book, Globalization, Non-fiction, Thomas Friedman ...

... . The retailers, dominated by Wal-Mart and Safeway, grab 68 cents of every dollar. These powerhouses have ... with individual growers. This further concentrates the big chains' buying power. Wal-Mart, now the largest ... and extract the last ounce of toil from labor. Someone down the line always pays for Wal-Mart's cutthroat ...

... specializes in supply-chain issues, says that companies like Wal-Mart--which depend on the timely delivery ... in the age of Wal-Mart without a strong IBT. To many truckers, however, the union is a thing of the past ... president, vice presidents, Wal-Mart, Article, Unions, Big Greg Tarpinian, Bruce Raynor, Edna Bonacich ...

... that manufacture goods for these and other companies like Wal-Mart, Liz Claiborne and the Gap. The New York ... Group, Nike, Niketown, Person Career, Rockefeller Center, Social Issues, Wal-Mart, Editorial, Global ...

... like Wal-Mart often can't afford the payroll deductions required for family or even individual coverage ... or Wal-Mart sales clerk. What makes Nickel and Dimed so engaging, however, is not its tutorial ... process in the retail and service sectors, and into workplace power relationships. If Wal-Mart had been ...

... countries (only thirty countries now have a GDP higher than that of Wal-Mart), it is neither useful nor fair ... the major advantage that companies like Wal-Mart--with a willingness to "race to the bottom"--have against ... , Portland, Social Issues, technician, Technology, United States, Wal-Mart, BARBARA DUDLEY, JOHN CAVANAGH ...

... /26]: The prison privatization trend seems Wal-Mart-like in its concern for bottom lines and political agendas over ... Career, Philadelphia, Social Issues, Sudan, The prison, Wal-Mart, whip, Aileen Wuornos, Andy Warhol, Ann ...

... to a Wal-Mart economy. This can be slowed down, or, as we saw with the New Deal, we can organize unions ... like Wal-Mart that no one union can undertake by itself. So these two proposals taken together would ... to organize Wal-Mart or healthcare workers, there is no unity. The airline industry, the most heavily ...

... a reprieve because, as our second-largest trading partner, it keeps Wal-Mart stocked with patriotic ... , United States, Wal-Mart, Column, US Wars and Military Action, Bernard Fall, Bush, Reagan, Saddam Hussein ...

... . Company anti-union propaganda, as at Wal-Mart, for example, claims that a union will deprive ... , President, Private, Senate, Wal-Mart, Labor Organizing and Activism, Social Justice, Article, Unions, Bush ...

... -Price, Hasbro, Tyco and Kenner, and retailers like Wal-Mart and Toys 'R' Us. Indeed, the Thai death toll ... , Shenzhen, the China Labor Bulletin, the People's Daily, Toys 'R' Us, Tyco, United States, Wal-Mart, Zhimao ...

... as retailed through the Gap and Wal-Mart so affordable to US consumers) has driven up the price of American ... , United Labor Agency, United States, United Steelworkers of America, USWA, Wal-Mart, Youngstown, Article ...

Protesters picket outside ... in the country.” Lichtenstein, author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World ... groups have revived, as state-level class actions, the Wal-Mart v. Dukes gender discrimination case ...

Betty Dukes testifies ... to examine the factors at issue in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Supreme Court ruling. Dukes, a Wal-Mart ... history, which charged Wal-Mart with discriminating against women in promotions, pay, and job assignments ... workplace justice. Chief among them is Wal-Mart v. Dukes . Betty Dukes, a Walmart greeter, was frustrated ...

... Liza Featherstone details how Wal-Mart takes advantage of female employees, Richard Goldstein looks at ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and Stuart Klawans reviews "The Aviator." ...

... Net are focusing attention on issues raised by the new documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price . On AlterNet, Joshua Holland explores the hidden costs of Wal-Mart's cheap merchandise from China in " Wal-Mart's China Price ," and Greg LeRoy looks at sweetheart taxpayer subsidies in " Wal-Mart's Tax ...

Chief Justice of ... &T Mobility v. Concepcion and Wal-Mart v. Dukes, both in 2011, the Supreme Court has systematically ensured that it will be more difficult for litigants to band together to bring such suits. In Wal-Mart ... . Wal-Mart has already been invoked by lower courts to deny class certifications [see Craig Becker ...

AP Photo/Amy ... (Editorial, Labor Organizing and Activism, Corporations, Wages and Hours, Working Conditions) Wal-Mart shopping cart Wal-Mart shopping cart Wal-Mart shopping cart Wal-Mart shopping cart Labor Organizing ...

Earlier this month ... Wal-Mart is telling its employees to vote Republican. Isn't that illegal? Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart, fearful of mandatory labor laws ... particularly egregious policies and practices for years. Wal-Mart claims that high union dues would prevent ...

... It's the poor who make Wal-Mart tick. On the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, Wal-Mart's many progressive critics--not to mention its business ... . The problem was quickly revealed: Wal-Mart hadn't been discounting aggressively enough. Without low prices ...

OUR Walmart members ... their career path.” Historian Nelson Lichtenstein, author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created ... was raising wages in part “because of all the controversy about Wal-Mart.” Poole’s comments suggest ...

One of the ... their needs most efficiently. Take, for example, the recent eviscerations of class-action lawsuits. When Wal-Mart ... eliminated most consumer and employment class-action suits. “Without minimizing Wal-Mart v. Dukes ...

A Chicago Walmart ... -profile discrimination suits, including the largest class action discrimination case in American history,  Wal-Mart v ...

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... Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein is the author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business, forthcoming in July. He directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University ...

On a map ... of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business . But that growth has slowed ... . BUT MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE. here in NYC we are fighting to keep the plague of Wal-Mart out of our town ... policy, Wal-Mart demands of its suppliers that they sell goods to Wal-Mart at such a low price ...