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1、UPFORDEBATESupplyChains,Workers’Chains,andtheNewWorldofRetailSupremacyNelsonLichtensteinAglobalizedworldofcommerceandlaborhasexistedforcenturies.TheVander-biltsandtheVictoriansknewallabouttheChinatrade.Buttoday’sglobalizationdiffersradicallyfromthatofevenafewdecadespastbecauseofthecontempor
2、aryroleplayedbythecorporatekingmakersofourday,thebigboxretailchainsthatnowoccupythestrategicheightsoncesowellgarrisonedbythegreatmanufactur-ingfirmsoftheFordistera.AtthecruxoftheglobalsupplychainsstandtheWal-Marts,theHomeDepots,andtheCarrefoursofourtime.Theymakethemarkets,settheprices,andde
3、terminetheworldwidedistributionoflaborforthegiganticstreamofcommoditiesthatnowflowsacrosstheircounters.ThedeindustrializationofDetroit,Pittsburgh,andClevelandentailednotjustthedestructionofaparticularsetofindustriesandcommunities,butalsotheshiftingofpowerwithinworldcapi-talismfrommanufactur
4、ingtotheretailsector,whichtodaycommandsthesupplychainsthatgirdletheearthanddirectsthelaborpowerofaworkingclasswhosecon-ditionreplicatesmuchthatweoncethoughtcharacteristicofonlythemostdesperate,earlystagesofcapitalistgrowth.Allthisisgraphicallyapparentuponavisittothetwomostdynamicnodesoftran
5、snationalcapitalismtoday.ItiseasytogettoBentonville,Arkansas,whereWal-Marthasitsworldheadquartersinanunimpressive,low-slungbuildinghardbythecompany’soriginalwarehouse.TherearelotsofdirectflightsfromDenver,Chi-cago,LaGuardia,andLosAngelestothisonce-remoteArkansastown.Itisstillnotverybig.Hard
6、lymorethanthreehundredthousandpeoplelivebetweenFayettevilleandtheMissouriline,yetitisoneofthefastestgrowingmetropolitanregionsinthecountry.Theparkinglotsarefull,thestreetsarecrowded,andnewconstructioniseverywhere.Mostimportant,Bentonvilleisnowhometoatleastfivehundredbranchofficesofthelarges
7、tWal-Mart“vendors,”whohaveplantedtheircorporateflaginnorthwestArkansasinthehopethattheycanmaintainorincreasetheirsalestotheLabor:StudiesinWorking-ClassHistoryoftheAmericas,Volume4,Issue1DOI10.1215/15476715-2006-032©2007byNelsonLichtenstein17184:1LABORwor
