Wal-Mart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century

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>> 195 Notes Notes to the Preface 1. For a fuller description of this analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, see Boddie et al., “Did the Religious Group Socioeconomic Ranking Change?” 2. Making Change at Walmart, “‘Walmart 1 Percent’ among Leading Supporters of Right-Wing ALEC.” Notes to Chapter 1 1. Strasser, “Woolworth to Wal-Mart.” 2. Dicker, United States of Wal-Mart, 164–167. 3. Cohen, Consumer’s Republic. 4. Fourcade and Healy, “Moral Views of Market Society,” 300. 5. See ibid. 6. Zelizer, “Beyond the Polemics”; Purchase of Intimacy, 13. 7. Zelizer, Purchase of Intimacy, 27. 8. See, for example, Swidler, “Culture in Action”; and Talk of Love. 9. See, for example, Gamson, Talking Politics. 10. Gusfield, Culture of Public Problems, 187. 11. Wuthnow, Poor Richard’s Principle, 52. 12. Abend, “Two Main Problems,” 118. 13. For a useful discussion of this perspective, see Vaisey, “Motivation and Justification.” 14. Lakoff, Moral Politics. 15. DiMaggio, Evans, and Bryson, “Have Americans’ Social Attitudes Become More Polarized?” 16. Ibid. See also Fiorina, Abrams, and Pope, Culture War?; Wolfe, One Nation, After All. 17. Fiorina, Abrams, and Pope, Culture War? 18. Smith, Moral, Believing Animals, 26–27. 19. Polletta, It Was Like a Fever, 13. 20. Wagner-Pacifici, Discourse and Destruction, 5. 21. Goldman and Girion, “Wal-Mart’s Memo Blurs Its Message.” 22. Bloomberg News, “Bankers Urge Congress”; Paletta, “FDIC Halts Acceptance.” 23. Barbaro and Greenhouse, “Andrew Young Resigns”; Goldman, “Young to Quit”; McGhee, “Young Resigns.” 24. Goldman, “Wal-Mart Hires Clinton Aide”; Hudson, “Campaign Tactics.” 196 > 197 of the history of consumerism and mass merchandizing in the United States, see Cohen, Consumer’s Republic; Strasser, “Woolworth to Wal-Mart”; Petrovic and Hamilton , “Making Global Markets.” 34. Petrovic and Hamilton, “Making Global Markets,” 108. 35. See, for example, Lichtenstein, “Wal-Mart.” 36. Centeno, “Observing Trade.” 37. Dollar, “Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980”; Findlay and O’Rourke, “Commodity Market Integration.” 38. Dollar, “Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980.” 39. Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization. 40. Firebaugh and Goesling, “Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality.” 41. Dollar, “Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980.” 42. Ibid. See also Rodrik, “Has Globalization Gone Too Far?” 43. Dollar, “Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980”; Findlay and O’Rourke, “Commodity Market Integration”; Millstone and Lang, Penguin Atlas of Food; Pomeranz and Topik, World That Trade Created. 44. Bonacich, “Wal-Mart and Logistics Revolution,” 165–168; Centeno, “Observing Trade.” 45. Goetz and Swaminathan, “Wal-Mart and Country-Wide Poverty”; Hudson and Bellman , “Wal-Mart to Enter India”; Linebaugh, “Wal-Mart to Buy Grocer-Retail Chain in China”; Rai and Giridharadas, “Wal-Mart’s Superstores Gain Entry into India.” 46. Barboza, “Wal-Mart Will Unionize in All of China”; Dickerson, “In Mexico, WalMart Is Counting on Banking”; Malkin, “Wal-Mart Will Offer Retail Banking in Mexico.” 47. Soderquist, Wal-Mart Way. 48. Dicker, United States of Wal-Mart. 49. Soderquist, Wal-Mart Way; Petrovic and Hamilton, “Making Global Markets.” 50. Hoopes, “Growth through Knowledge.” 51. Carroll and Hannan, Demography of Corporations and Industries. 52. Of course, this move has not gone without controversy, as critics warn that this practice disrupts family life, makes it difficult to arrange child care or transportation, and potentially moves workers from predictable full-time hours to precarious part-time schedules. See Los Angeles Times, “Wal-Mart Rolls Out Scheduling Software”; Maher, “Wal-Mart Joins Health-Care Call.” 53. Fishman, Wal-Mart Effect; Goldberg, “Selling Wal-Mart.” 54. Bonacich, “Wal-Mart and Logistics Revolution.” 55. Ibid. 56. Ibid. 57. Williams, Inside Toyland. 58. Fishman, Wal-Mart Effect, 4. 59. Barbaro, “No Playtime.” 60. Bonacich, “Wal-Mart and Logistics Revolution.” 61. Fishman, Wal-Mart Effect, 80–81. 62. Ibid., 249. 63. Ibid., 175–179. 64. Ibid., 179. 198 > 199 correspond to the appropriate date listed. In order to be faithful to these texts in their original form, I have chosen not to correct errors in spelling and grammar that appear in the personal stories collected by WFWM. Additionally, these stories refer to Wal-Mart, Walmart, Wal-mart, Wal Mart, and Wal*Mart, and I have elected not to standardize those references. 9. All quotations attributed to the Wal-Mart Watch website were accessed by the author through the website during the research-gathering phase of this book, although some may no longer be available. Wal-Mart Watch resources are now housed at makingchangeatwalmart.org. Quotations attributed to WMW press releases, their faith-based letters, and emails were also accessed via the...