New Books Highlight Wal-Mart's Way of Doing Business

Wal-Mart's unconscionable labor practices have been well-documented on this blog and elsewhere.

Now, a new book "The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business" by Nelson Lichtenstein "offers the best account yet of the myriad problems that Wal-Mart employees endure, including the elaborate measures the company has taken to avoid paying workers' compensation to employees injured on the job," according to The Big Money.

Lichtenstein's is just one of several recent scholarly examinations of Wal-Mart's rise and the cost of its success. Go here to read a review of several Wal-mart books.

Two books mentioned in the blog are To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton and Lichtenstein's The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business.