"There is no shortage of statistics testifying to Wal-Mart's mammoth scale: Wal-Mart is the world's largest corporation, the world's largest private employer, and China's eighth largest export market. Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism is an attempt to get bey…
Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the U.S. and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a spring 2004 conference of leading h…
Presents a collection of essays that examine the largest corporation in America and includes information on its history and development as well as its impact on the American economy.
Focuses on rurla-to-urban migration of young women serving as domestic workers for urban families in China from fall 1998 up to spring 2000.
"Much current writing about agrarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations such as debt bondage are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. Here it is argued that the incidence of bonded labour is much greater than gene…
This reader examines the ways in which work influences our roles in both the public and private spheres. Goodman has selected a key set of essays that examine influential arguments on such themes as the origins of the gendered division of labor; historical trends and economic tr…
"The chief aim of Jobs and Fairness is to bring together evidence about the validity of the first hypothesis: about the material benefits which employee ownership may be expected to bring. Accordingly, after an extended discussion of theoretical and background questions, it cons…
Demonstrates that finance is the driveshaft that links inequality to economic instability.
Discusses hypothetical links between the growth of trade with non-OECD countries and increasing tension in the labour markets of Western Europe, Japan and the USA.