Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains

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Carolina Bank Muñoz Bridget Kenny

Walmart in the Global South

Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains

Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, Antonio Stecher

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University of Texas Press
01 May 2018

International business; Retail sector

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 Walmart's 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 Walmart's 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 volume's contributors show how and why foreign workers have successfully, though not uniformly, driven changes in Walmart's 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.

Edited by: Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny, Antonio Stecher
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781477315682
ISBN 10: 1477315683
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 May 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carolina Bank Muñoz is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Bridget Kenny is an associate professor of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Antonio Stecher is a professor and dean of the School of Psychology at Universidad Diego Portales.

Reviews for Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains

Through its wide-ranging and multi-faceted analysis, Walmart in the Global South provides a thought-provoking examination of globalized capital accumulation, the embeddedness of [transnational corporations] within local environments and relations, and the struggle between [transnational corporations] and workers. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies * [Walmart in the Global South] reads like a stolen playbook, explaining how the biggest retailer on the planet has managed to infiltrate, appropriate, exploit, and degrade working conditions around the world...Books like this one are essential to remind consumers and shareholders in the global North that everyday low prices depend on the shocking exploitation of working people around the world. * Contemporary Sociology * An invaluable addition to the literature on modern global capitalism that demonstrates both the company's power to reshape work and work cultures globally and also how worker resistance can force it to make compromises with unions it would never acquiesce to in the United States. * The Latin Americanist *