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Brave New Films, producers of "Wal-mart: The High
Cost of Low Price", describes how the film will address the issues
of trade and globalization:
While the central focus in "Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Price"
will be on Wal-Mart's impact on working people in the United States,
the film will also take a close look at Wal-Mart's international
face. Wal-Mart has stores in ten countries, and operates supplier
factories in many more. Besides showing the personal stories of
workers in China and elsewhere who work long hours for low pay
making Wal-Mart products, the film will also take us to Great
Britain , where Asda/Wal-Mart is destroying a people's market
in the East End of London.
We visit workers in Germany who have been fighting Wal-Mart successfully,
using local laws and hard-won traditions such as in-store Worker's
Councils. In Mexico we find that Wal-Mart has desecrated sacred
sites and special government-designated "Magic Towns"
by planning super centers nearby, and in Canada we follow the
workers of Jonquiere who voted for a union only to see Wal-Mart
shut down the store six months later.
As with Wal-Mart, the film is global in scope, tracking the power
of Wal-Mart over such things as trade policy, U.S./China relations,
and the Wal-Mart squeeze down every inch of the supply chain as
billions of dollars in goods travel to U.S. ports from around
the globe. At the center of the film's international section
are people, people who work for Wal-Mart, people who resist them,
and people who determine global policy for one of the world's
largest corporations.
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