Powerpoint presentation: “Business Strategies and Employment Practices of Wal-mart and Other Mass Retailers.” The retail trade sector has experienced important shifts in the industry structure, against the backdrop of growing wage inequality in the United States. The Wal-Mart model has emerged as a driving force in the industry, both in terms of production and labor practices. Addressing these shifts requires an examination of high-road and low-road business strategies.
Powerpoint presentation on “Low-Wage America.” Low-Wage America is the most extensive study to date of how the choices employers make in response to economic globalization, industry deregulation, and advances in information technology affect the lives of tens of millions of workers at the bottom of the wage distribution.
Report details that living wage laws have improved economic development in their communities and have cost much less to implement than most analysts initially expected.
