| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Governance, development, and social inclusion in Latin America |
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Governance, development, and social inclusion in Latin America.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Labor Contestation at Walmart in Latin America as Test Case of Global Diffusion by Multinationals -- 2. Mediations of Global Diffusion: Walmart Meets National Institutions and Nested Agents -- 3. Testing Distant Waters: Walmart's Early Years in Brazil, 1995-2002 -- 4. Expansion, Conflictual Cooperation, and Rising Legal Scrutiny: 2003-2014 -- 5. Divergent National Patterns of Labor Contestation: Comparisons with Argentina, Chile, and Mexico -- 6. Labor Contestation Amidst Restructuring, Flexible Labor Reforms, and Walmart's Exit from Brazil, 2015-2018 -- 7. Conclusion: Failed Global Diffusion, Walmart's Exit, and National Institutions |
| Summary |
This book explores how the labor practices of the world's largest private employer, Walmart, were contested by unions and regulators in Latin America. With an in-depth case study of Brazil, and a comparative examination of Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, the authors analyze the problematic encounter between diffusion of home-office antilabor practices and evolving national institutional contexts that sometimes enable considerable union and/or regulatory resistance. Walmart's repressive familial and anti-union model is found to generate costs and conflicts that contributed to its exit from Brazil after 23 years |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wal-Mart (Firm)
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| SUBJECT |
Wal-Mart (Firm) fast |
| Subject |
Supermarkets -- South America -- Employees
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Supermarkets -- Employees
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South America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Veiga, João Paulo Candia, author
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Galhera, Katiuscia M., author
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| ISBN |
9783030746728 |
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3030746720 |
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