Wal-Town is a project dedicated to compiling data on Wal-Mart in Canada, and to that end our resources section will focus on Canada, with a sub-section of international information. Here you will find articles, reports and more. If you know of anything we should add that specifically relates to Wal-Mart in Canada, please send it along.
From Wal-Town the Film
The follwing two documents, compile by Tim McSorley and Brett Storey, documents and sources the information fund in Wal-Town the Film.Research with Source List (PDF)
Research with Source Documents (PDF)
Articles - Canada
Wal-Mart's Culture of Control
Jason Gondziola
- Canadian Dimension Magazine, Issue May/June 2005.
Link to article
Organizing Wal-Mart: The Canadian Campaign (Autumn 2005) Download file (PDF)
Profeddor Roy J. Adams takes a look at the in's and out's of the campaign to organise Wal-Mart workers in Canada
No Union Please, We're Wal-Mart (13/02/2006) Download file (PDF)
An interesting look from south of the border of the store closure in Jonquiere.
Wal-Mart in the Blogosphere (03/06/2006) Download file (PDF)
Montreal's Le Devoir explores Wal-Mart's - and its opponents' - forays into blogs and the world wide web (French)
Academic - International
Wal-Mart and County Wide Poverty
By Stephan J. Goetz and Anil Rupasingha
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Wal-Mart and Social Capital
By Stephan J. Goetz and Anil Rupasingha
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Wal-Mart: Template for 21st Century Capitalism?
- a Conference at the University of California
April 12, 2004 Corwin Pavilion, UC Santa Barbara
Link to Conference papers and more
Shopping for subsidies (May 2004) Download file (PDF)
Good Jobs First, in New York, have put together a comprehensive document showing to what degree Wal-Mart takes advantage of subsidies from all three levels of government in paying for their infrastructure. The total amount they receive in one year? Over $1 billion in public funds
Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price we all Pay for Wal-Mart (16/02/2004) Download file (PDF)
A concise look at Wal-Mart violations in the United States, including an intereting breakdown of how much the paper's authors believe Wal-Mart workers receive in government support due to their low wages. Researched and written by the Democratic Staff of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Letter of recommendation to the Norwegian Ministry of Finance (15/11/2005) Download file (PDF)
Text of the letter sent by the Norwegian Ethics Committee to the Ministry of Finance recommending the goverment drop over $400 million worth of Wal-Mart stock because of labour and human rights violations.