“ As the unionized General Motors was big enough to set the pattern for the employment of nonprofessional Americans in the three decades following World War II, Wal-Mart is now so big it is setting the pattern today. Each created a distinct national buying public for its goods that was far larger than its immediate work force: in GM’s case, workers who could afford to buy new cars; in Wal-Mart’s, workers who could afford to shop nowhere except Wal-Mart.
- Harold Meyerson, reviewing “The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business”
by Nelson Lichtenstein, in The American Prospect
by Nelson Lichtenstein, in The American Prospect
