Walmart in the Global South : workplace culture, labor politics, and supply chains / edited by Carolina Bank Munoz, Bridget Kenny, Antonio Stecher.
By: Bank Munoz, Carolina [author.].
Contributor(s): Kenny, Bridget [author.] | Stecher, Antonio [author.].
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2018Edition: First edition.Description: 267 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781477315675 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Wal-Mart (Firm) | Discount houses (Retail trade) -- Social aspects -- Developing countries | Discount houses (Retail trade) -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries | Discount houses (Retail trade) -- United States | Business enterprises, Foreign -- Developing countries | Labor and globalization -- Developing countries | GlobalizationGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 381/.149091724| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HF5429.215 .D44 B36 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013782 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Situating Walmart in a global context : workplace cultures, industrial relations and supply chains / Carolina Bank Munoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher -- Wal-mart in Brazil : from global diffusion to national institutional embeddedness? / Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Scott B. Martin, and Joao Paulo Candia Veiga -- Wal-mart and labor conditions in South Africa : local retailing, contract labor, and union weakness / Bridget Kenny -- Wal-mart workers in Chile : a case of union democracy, militancy, and strategic capacity / Carolina Bank Munoz -- Rank and file union activism in Wal-mart Argentina / Paula Abal Medina -- Wal-mart culture in the information technologies industry in Mexico / Gabriela Victoria Alvarado -- Wal-mart's direct farmer programme in South Africa : developmental state victory or corporate whitewash? / Stephen Greenberg -- Brokering development : NGO's and Wal-mart in low-income countries / Jennifer Wiegel -- Wal-mart's human trafficking problem : shrimp farming in Thailand / Nicholas Rudikoff -- Final reflections / Carolina Bank Munoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher.