Walmart in the Global South : workplace culture, labor politics, and supply chains /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Bank Muñoz, Carolina (Editor), Kenny, Bridget (Editor), Stecher, Antonio (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	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. Globalization. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Situating Walmart in a global context : workplace cultures, industrial relations and supply chains / Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher
Wal-mart in Brazil : from global diffusion to national institutional embeddedness? / Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Scott B. Martin, and João 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 Muñoz
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 Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher.