Walmart in the Global South : : Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains / / ed. by Antonio Stecher, Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Abal Medina, Paula,; Alvarado, Gabriela Victoria,; Bank Muñoz, Carolina,; Cândia Veiga, João Paulo,; Greenberg, Stephen,; Kenny, Bridget,; Martin, Scott B.,; Moreno Galhera, Katiuscia,; Rudikoff, Nicholas,; Stecher, Antonio,; Wiegel, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Bank Muñoz, Carolina,; Kenny, Bridget,; Stecher, Antonio,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Situating Walmart in a Global Context: Workplace Cultures, Labor Organizing, and Supply Chains
• Chapter 1. Walmart in Brazil: From Global Diffusion to National Institutional Embeddedness
• Chapter 2. Walmart and Labor Conditions in South Africa: Local Retailing, Contract Labor, and Union Challenges
• Chapter 3. Walmart Workers in Chile: A Case of Union Democracy, Militancy, and Strategic Capacity
• Chapter 4. Rank-and-File Union Activism in Walmart Argentina
• Chapter 5. Walmart Culture in the Information Technologies Industry in Mexico
• Chapter 6. Walmart’s Direct Farmer Program in South Africa: Developmental State Victory or Corporate Whitewash?
• Chapter 7. Brokering Development: NGOs and Walmart in Nicaragua
• Chapter 8. Walmart’s Human Traffi cking Problem: The Shrimp Supply Chain in Thailand
• Final Reflections
• Contributors
• Index