To Serve God And Wal Mart

Author : Bethany Moreton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256468
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Serve God and Wal-Mart written by Bethany Moreton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America’s devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas missionaries, and free-market activists. Through the stories of people linked by the world’s largest corporation, Bethany Moreton shows how a Christian service ethos powered capitalism at home and abroad. While industrial America was built by and for the urban North, rural Southerners comprised much of the labor, management, and consumers in the postwar service sector that raised the Sun Belt to national influence. These newcomers to the economic stage put down the plough to take up the bar-code scanner without ever passing through the assembly line. Industrial culture had been urban, modernist, sometimes radical, often Catholic and Jewish, and self-consciously international. Post-industrial culture, in contrast, spoke of Jesus with a drawl and of unions with a sneer, sang about Momma and the flag, and preached salvation in this world and the next. This extraordinary biography of Wal-Mart’s world shows how a Christian pro-business movement grew from the bottom up as well as the top down, bolstering an economic vision that sanctifies corporate globalization. The author has assigned her royalties and subsidiary earnings to Interfaith Worker Justice (www.iwj.org) and its local affiliate in Athens, GA, the Economic Justice Coalition (www.econjustice.org).

Author : Marjorie Rosen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569763704
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boom Town written by Marjorie Rosen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the personal stories behind the headquarters of the Wal-Mart empire, this examination focuses on the growth of Bentonville, Arkansas--a microcosm of America's social, political, and cultural shift. Numerous personalities are interviewed, including a multimillionaire Palestinian refugee who arrived penniless and is now dedicated to building a synagogue, a Mexican mother of three who was fired after injuring herself on the job, a black executive hired to diversify Wal-Mart whose arrival coincided with a KKK rally, and a Hindu father concerned about interracial dating. In documenting these citizens' stories, this account reveals the challenges and issues facing those who compose this and other "boom towns"--where demographics, the economy, and immigration and migration patterns are continually in flux. In shedding light on these important and timely anecdotes of America's changing rural and suburban landscape, this exploration provides an entertaining and intimate chronicle of the different ethnicities, races, and religions as well as their ongoing struggles to adapt. Emerging as subtle sociology combined with drama and humanity, this overview illustrates the imperceptible and occasionally unpredictable movements that affect the nonmetropolitan environment of the United States.

Author : Rick Leland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983362432
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus at Walmart written by Rick Leland and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In book two of the Jesus at Walmart Trilogy, Malachi Marble is still working at Walmart.& ;& ;The former pastor, toils through the night while attempting to keep the desire of his heart alivehis passion to serve God and his coworkers at the store.& ;& ;Join Malachi as his life, his faith, and his yearnings become exposed to vulnerability's limit.& ;& ;Walk past the greeter, into the heart and soul of Walmart with Malachi. Another trip to Walmart like no other, awaits you.& ;& ;And may you enjoy the venue of fiction for exploring thoughts and ideas to new depths.

Author : Adam Reich
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154782X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working for Respect written by Adam Reich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their working conditions and their lives. In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. They show why traditional unions have been unable to organize service-sector workers in places like Walmart and offer provocative suggestions for new strategies and directions. Drawing on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, Working for Respect is a sophisticated reconsideration of the modern workplace that makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality and the centrality of the experience of work in a fair economy.

Author : Charles Fishman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594200762
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wal-Mart Effect written by Charles Fishman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist breaks through the wall of secrecy to reveal how the world's most powerful company really works and how it is transforming the American economy.

Author : David BRAKKE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674028651
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demons and the Making of the Monk written by David BRAKKE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this finely written study of demonology and Christian spirituality in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt, David Brakke examines how the conception of the monk as a holy and virtuous being was shaped by the combative encounter with demons. Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, and community rules, Brakke crafts a compelling picture of the embattled religious celibate.

Author : Billie Letts
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075952288X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Heart Is written by Billie Letts and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this small Southwest town--a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobless girl living secretly in a Wal-Mart. From Bible-thumping blue-haired Sister Thelma Husband to eccentric librarian Forney Hull who loves Novalee more than she loves herself, they are about to take her--and you, too--on a moving, funny, and unforgettable journey to . . . Where the Heart Is.

Author : John Van Sloten
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 163146549X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Job a Parable written by John Van Sloten and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Walmart greeter, a nurse, and an astronaut walk into a church. . . . They each bring with them their own exhaustions and exasperations, their own uncertainty about whether and how their work matters to God. Good news: All work matters to God, because all work reflects some aspect of the character of God. God created the world so that it runs best when it mirrors Him, and we ourselves find the most fulfillment when we recognize God behind our labor. John Van Sloten offers a fascinating and innovative reflection on vocation: Our work is a parable of God; as we work, we are icons of grace.

Author : Daniel Louis Schwartz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674067035
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paideia and Cult written by Daniel Louis Schwartz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schwartz's analysis of the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia explores the role of education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. Catechesis emerges here as invaluable for comprehending clergy's ability to initiate new members as Christianity gained increasing prominence within the late Roman world.

Author : Lori Pearson
Publisher : Harvard Divinity School
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Essence written by Lori Pearson and published by Harvard Divinity School. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the intimate connection between Troeltsch's philosophical writings on the essence of Christianity and his historical investigations of Christianitys past.