In These Times

Nelson Lichtenstein teaches history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is the author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2009) and The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit, and editor of Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism (2006), a collection of essays.