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The Case Against Wal-Mart

Attribution
Al Norman
Publication Details
Book, Raphel Marketing, 2004
Availability
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(LOWER LEVEL) HF5429.2 .N67 2004 AVAILABLE
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Description
It presents evidence to make its case that Wal-Mart: * Forces its own workers to labor “off the clock” without pay * Uses overseas sweatshop labor to manufacture its corporate brand clothing * Sells knock-off and counterfeit merchandise that misleads and confuses its customers * Destroys acres of environmentally sensitive lands to build new Wal-Marts, close to existing Wal-Marts that will be closed * Has eliminated all competition in many towns across the U.S. by illegally lowering prices below wholesale * Has forced the movement of thousands of manufacturing jobs out of the U.S. * Calls “full-time” 28 hours per week and pays wages so low that many of its employees qualify ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Norman, Al
Subject
Notes
- "I pledge my income to the store of the United States of Wal-Mart, and to the stockholders for whom it expands. One workforce, under-paid, with barbie dolls and cheap underwear for all."–t.p
Contents
- Pre-trial arguments: a chain of exploitation
- Count 1: abuse of power
- Count 2: destroying the value of labor - - Count 3: exploiting your suppliers
- Count 4: degrading the environment
- Count 5: unfair competition
- Count 6: questionable banking practices
- Count 7: exploiting global trade
- Count 8: corporate welfare abuse
- Count 9: charity: false advertising
- Count 10: danger to public safety
- Count 11: abandonment of premises
- Count 12: crime: reckless endangerment
- Count 13: injurious to private property
- Instructions to the jury: a shopper’s boycott
ISBN
- 0971154236
- 9780971154230
Open Library ID
- /b/OL8563535M