In the past, both Robert and I have made the rather obvious contrast between Walmart and the Ford Motor Company c. 1914.* When you do this, Walmart doesn’t come out looking very good. The reas...

In the past I’ve said good things about Sam Walton. In his review of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business by Nelson Lichtenstein, Harold Myerson shows me tha...

This week we’ll be examining Bethany Moreton’s To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Professor Moreton teaches History and Women’s Studies at the Unive...

I was grateful for JR’s review, since, as he says, this is an academic history that aims for a general audience–not always an easy combination! It began as a paper I presented in 2006, tha...

As I wrote in my Wal-Mart Watch review of To Serve God and Wal-Mart, the book goes way beyond Wal-Mart in its pages, using Walmart as a kind of proxy for deeper political and cultural changes that hav...

The Harvard Gazette covers an appearance on campus by our friend Bethany Moreton, where she spoke about her book (which you really should have read already). The short article is a pretty good summar...