Wal-Mart of world-mart? A teaching case study

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 513-533

  Jaques, Peter ^a   Thomas, Rebecca ^b   Foster, Daniel ^b   McCann, Jennifer ^b   Tunno, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cultural homogenization; Globalization; Labor unions; Multinational corporations; Retail; Sweatshops; Teaching economics; Wal Mart; Working poor

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842710272     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613403257808     Document Type: Review

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