Nelson Lichtenstein, MacArthur Chair in History and the University of California, Santa Barbara and director of the Center for the Center of Work, Labor, and Democracy, spoke on “Wal-Mart in China: Work, Politics, and Ideology.”

Lichtenstein is the author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2009) and a contributor to Anita Chan's new collection, Walmart in China (2011), which offers a series of essays by Chinese and American researchers probing the work regime in Walmart's Chinese stores and supplier factories, as well as the prospects for unionization of those facilities.