摘要：Public debate regarding Wal-Mart has intensified in recent years. Concern over the retailer‟s business practices and the company‟s effect on local communi-ties has manifested itself in several anti-Wal-Mart campaigns and books. In 2005, for example, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union started a campaign against Wal-Mart‟s wages and benefits called “Wake-Up Wal-Mart.” In that same year a coalition of environmental, labor, and religious groups started “Wal-Mart Watch,” also with the stated goal of forcing Wal-Mart to increase wages and bene-fits (Coleman-Lochner, 2006). A search of online booksellers returns numerous anti-Wal-Mart books such as The Bully of Bentonville (Blanco, 2006) and The Case Against Wal-Mart (Norman, 2004). The issue has become so large that politicians have begun to make criticism of Wal-Mart part of their campaign strategy (Nagourney and Barbaro, 2006).
