Carolina Bank Muńoz, Bridget Kenny, Antonio Stecher

Walmart in the Global South

Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains
Herausgeber: Bank Muñoz, Carolina; Stecher, Antonio; Kenny, Bridget

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With empirical case studies of Walmart's entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world's largest private employer has had to adapt its labor practices and supply chain operations to meet local conditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781477315682
• ISBN-10: 1477315683
• Artikelnr.: 49668224

Autorenporträt

Edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny,and Antonio Stecher

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction. Situating Walmart in a Global Context: Workplace
Cultures, Industrial Relations, and Supply Chains (Carolina Bank
Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher)
* 1. Walmart in Brazil: From Global Diffusion to National Institutional
Embeddedness (Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Scott B. Martin, and João
Paulo Cândia Veiga)
* 2. Walmart and Labor Conditions in South Africa: Local Retailing,
Contract Labor, and Union Challenges (Bridget Kenny)
* 3. Walmart Workers in Chile: A Case of Union Democracy, Militancy,
and Strategic Capacity (Carolina Bank Muñoz)
* 4. Rank-and-File Union Activism in Walmart Argentina (Paula Abal
Medina)
* 5. Walmart Culture in the Information Technologies Industry in Mexico
(Gabriela Victoria Alvarado)
* 6. Walmart’s Direct Farmer Program in South Africa: Developmental
State Victory or Corporate Whitewash? (Stephen Greenberg)
* 7. Brokering Development: NGOs and Walmart in Low-Income Countries
(Jennifer Wiegel)
* 8. Walmart’s Human Trafficking Problem: The Shrimp Supply Chain in
Thailand (Nicholas Rudikoff)
* Final Reflections (Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio
Stecher)
* Contributors
* Index