Walmart in China / / ed. by Anita Chan.
Walmart and "Made in China" are practically synonymous; Walmart imports some 70 percent of its merchandise from China. Walmart is now also rapidly becoming a major retail presence there, with close to two hundred Walmarts in more than a hundred Chinese cities. What happens when the world&#...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 5 halftones, 10 tables, 8 charts/graphs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: When the World's Largest Company Encounters the World's Biggest Country
- Part One: The Walmart Supply Chain
- 1. Walmart's Long March to China: How a Mid-American Retailer Came to Stake Its Future on the Chinese Economy
- 2. Outsourcing in China: Walmart and Chinese Manufacturers
- 3. Walmartization, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Labor Standards of Toy Factories in South China
- 4. Made in China: Work and Wages in Walmart Supplier Factories
- Part Two: The Walmart Stores
- 5. Corporate Cadres: Management and Corporate Culture at Walmart China
- 6. A Store Manager's Success Story
- 7. Practicing Cheer: The Diary of a Low-Level Supervisor at a Walmart China Store
- 8. Working in Walmart, Kunming: Technology, Outsourcing, and Retail Globalization
- Part Three: Walmart Trade Unions
- 9. Unionizing Chinese Walmart Stores
- 10. Did Unionization Make a Difference? Work Conditions and Trade Union Activities at Chinese Walmart Stores
- 11. Workers and Communities versus Walmart: A Comparison of Organized Resistance in the United States and China
- Notes
- Notes on Contributors
- Index