Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the United States of Wal-Mart
  • Size matters (now more than ever)
  • "Most versatile boy" : how Sam Walton became an ethos
  • The growth machine
  • Wal-Marts behaving badly, I
  • Wal-Marts behaving badly, II
  • Proceeds from the sale of this item help move jobs to Guangdong! : Wal-Mart goes global
  • Spin city
  • It's a Wal-Mart world after all
  • Taming the beast
  • Race, class, and cul-de-sac radicals : saying no to Wal-Mart
  • Land of the white, blue, and you.