{"product_id":"9781429989718","title":"The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism, Sam Walton's firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers, famed for the ruthless efficiency of its global network of stores and factories. But the revolution has gone further: Sam's protégés have created a new economic order which puts thousands of manufacturers, indeed whole regions, in thrall to a retail royalty. Like the Pennsylvania Railroad and General Motors in their heyday, Wal-Mart sets the commercial model for a huge swath of the global economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this lively, probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein deepens and expands our knowledge of the merchandising giant. He shows that Wal-Mart's rise was closely linked to the cultural and religious values of Bible Belt America as well as to the imperial politics, deregulatory economics, and laissez-faire globalization of Ronald Reagan and his heirs. He explains how the company's success has transformed American politics, and he anticipates a day of reckoning, when challenges to the Wal-Mart way, at home and abroad, are likely to change the far-flung empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsightful, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, \u003ci\u003eThe Retail Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e draws on first hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has transformed international commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154147885296,"sku":"9781429989718","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429989718_p0.jpg?v=1769903082","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429989718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}