Wal-Mart Effect How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And How It's Transforming the American Economy

Name: Wal-Mart Effect How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And How It's Transforming the American Economy
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ISBN: 9781594200762

ISBN-10: 1594200769

ISBN-13: 9781594200762

Edition: 2006

Authors: Charles Fishman

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An award-winning journalist breaks through the wall of secrecy to reveal the many astonishing ways Wal-Mart's power affects our lives and reaches all around the world. The Wal-Mart Effect: The overwhelming impact of the world's largest company--due to its relentless pursuit of low prices--on retailers and manufacturers, wages and jobs, the culture of shopping, the shape of our communities, and the environment; a global force of unprecedented nature. Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest company; it is also the largest company in the history of the world. Americans spend $26 million every hourat Wal-Mart, twenty-four hours of every day, every day of the year. Is the company a good thing…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Charles Fishman is the author ofThe Wal-Mart Effect, aNew York Times,Wall Street Journal, andBusiness Weekbestseller, as well as a finalist for the Goldman Sachs-ldquo;Financial Timesrdquo; Business Book of the Year awardnbsp;in 2006.nbsp;Fishman is anbsp;former metro and national reporter forThe Washington Post. Since 1996, he has worked for the innovative business magazineFast Company. He has won numerous awards, including twice winning UCLArsquo;s Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding business writing, the most prestigious award in business journalism. His story about bottled water, ldquo;Message in a Bottle,rdquo;nbsp;was a finalist for the 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing, and a…