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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : Walmart in the Global South [Texte électronique] : workplace culture, labor politics, and supply chains / edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, Antonio Stecher
Publication : Austin : University of Texas press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée (viii-267 p.)
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"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 must confront and adapt to diverse
policies and practices pertaining to regulation, economy, history, union organization,
preexisting labor cultures, and civil society in every country into which it enters.
This transnational aspect of the Walmart story, including the diversity and flexibility
of its strategies and practices outside the United States, is mostly unreported. Walmart
in the Global South presents empirical case studies of Walmarts labor practices and
supply chain operations in a number of countries, including Chile, Brazil, Argentina,
Nicaragua, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand. It assesses the similarities and differences
in Walmarts acceptance into varying national contexts, which reveals when and how
state regulation and politics have served to redirect company practice and to what
effect. Regulatory context, state politics, trade unions, local cultures, and global
labor solidarity emerge as vectors with very different force around the world. The
volumes contributors show how and why foreign workers have successfully, though not
uniformly, driven changes in Walmarts corporate culture. This makes Walmart in the
Global South a practical guide for organizations that promote social justice and engage
in worker struggles, including unions, worker centers, and other nonprofit entities."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bank Muñoz, Carolina. Éditeur scientifique
Kenny, Bridget. Éditeur scientifique
Stecher, Antonio. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Magasins discount -- Société -- Pays en développement
Magasins discount -- Pays en développement
Wal-Mart stores, Inc.
Indice(s) Dewey :
381.149 091724 (23e éd.) = Magasins de rabais - Régions en voie de développement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781477315675. - ISBN 1477315675. - ISBN 9781477315682. - ISBN 1477315683. -
ISBN 9781477315699 (erroné). - ISBN 9781477315705 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45559418d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45559418
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