Please use around 300 words to discuss some of the questions below after watch the short movie and read the essay. please have some subjective opinion.
4 questions:
1. How does Wal-Mart exemplify business practices under neoliberalism?
2. Can a corporation that is legally responsible only to maximize profit for its owners truly be “socially responsible?”
3. In the same vein can we solely blame Wal-Mart for its behaviour or do we have to look to how we are governed – the policy choices and legal frameworks we have decided (or tolerated) to live under?
4. Regarding the Maclean’s article and the documentary; why do we expect poverty-level wages to be the norm among big box stores? Is there any inherent reason why service jobs should not pay a livable wage? Is operating a machine in a factory really that different than operating a cash register?
screening: WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-Sr3SjBzk
readings: “Wal-Marts Sick Memo” Barbaro, Michael, Greenhouse, Steve. Our Times.( Toronto: Nov 2005. Vol. 24, Iss. 5)p. 7 https://search-proquest-com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/docview/213081771?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo
“Why Wal-Mart is Good” SteveMaich. Maclean’s. (Toronto: Jul 25, 2005) Vol.118, Iss. 30; pg. 26, 8 pgs https://search-proquest-com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/docview/218517544?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo
