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

edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, Antonio Stecher

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

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Year of publication:	2018 ; First edition
Other Persons:	Bank Muñoz, Carolina (ed.) ; Kenny, Bridget (ed.) ; Stecher Guzmán, Antonio (ed.)
Publisher:	Austin : University of Texas Press
Subject:	Wal-Mart Stores \| Discounter \| Discounters \| Einzelhandel \| Retail trade \| Arbeitsbedingungen \| Working conditions \| Unternehmenspolitik \| Corporate policy \| Unternehmenskultur \| Corporate culture \| Soziale Gerechtigkeit \| Social justice \| Arbeiterbewegung \| Labour movement \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	viii, 267 Seiten 23 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Enthält 8 Beiträge
ISBN:	978-1-4773-1567-5 ; 978-1-4773-1568-2 ; 978-1-4773-1569-9 ; 978-1-4773-1570-5
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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