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To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise / Bethany Moreton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moreton, Bethany.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wal-Mart (Firm).
- Business--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Business.
- Free enterprise--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Free enterprise.
- Discount houses (Retail trade)--United States.
- Discount houses (Retail trade).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Prolgue: From populists to Wal-Mart moms
- Our fathers' America
- The birth of Wal-Mart
- Wal-Mart country
- The family in the store
- Service work and the service ethos
- Revival in the aisles
- Servants unto servants
- Making Christian businessmen
- Evangelizing for free enterprise
- Students in free enterprise
- "Students changing the world"
- On a mission : the Walton international scholarship program
- Selling free trade
- Epilogue: A perfect storm.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-349) and index.
- Frederick Jackson Turner Award, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780674054295
- 0674054296
- OCLC:
- 650350205
- Publisher Number:
- heb08969 hdl
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