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Walmart in the Global South

Author : Carolina Bank Muñoz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477315683
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Walmart in the Global South written by Carolina Bank Muñoz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Walmart in the Global South

Author : Carolina Bank Muñoz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477315683
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Wal-Mart World

Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415951372
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Wal-Mart World written by Stanley D. Brunn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a billion shoppers worldwide, Wal-Mart World is the first book to look at this incredibly important phenomenon in global perspective, its broad scope makes it essential reading for anyone interested in the global impact of this economic colossus.

Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil

Author : Scott B. Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030746720
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil written by Scott B. Martin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why the labor practices of the world’s largest employer, supermarket giant Walmart, were contested by unions and government regulators as it expanded to Latin America starting in the 1990s. With an in-depth case study of Brazil, and a comparative chapter examining Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, this book analyzes the problematic encounter between diffusion of home-office anti-labor practices and evolving national institutional contexts that are quite varied and in some cases enable considerable resistance by unions and/or regulators. Walmart’s “repressive familial” and “anti-union” model is found to generate costs and conflicts that contributed to its unprofitability and ultimate exit from Brazil in 2018. This experience, contrasted with country situations where Walmart’s overall competitive and labor and human resource practices “fit” better with national markets and institutions, underlines the brittle, problematic nature of diffusionist corporate models lacking adaptive capacity to significant cross-national variations across host countries.

Wspc Reference On Natural Resources And Environmental Policy In The Era Of Global Change, The (In 4 Volumes)

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Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814713708
Total Pages : 1631 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Wspc Reference On Natural Resources And Environmental Policy In The Era Of Global Change, The (In 4 Volumes) written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 1631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change provides a comprehensive and prominent reference of various highly authoritative volumes of long-term scientific value, for milestone concepts and theories. The books in the reference set are edited by leading experts in the fields of: Game Theory, International Relations and Global Politics, Computable General Equilibrium (CGE): Economy-Wide Modeling, and Experimental Economics. Each book in the reference set includes chapters that are laid out by recognized, broadly respected researchers, in fields associated with issues related to natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change. The reference set focuses on the economic and strategic aspects of interactions among various parts of society, all dependent on the availability and utilization of limited natural resources and their impact on the environment. Policy implications are addressed, including current challenges and future perspectives.The combination of the four books provides a unique perspective on the issues that engage the public discourse of researchers and policy-makers at state, regional, and global levels. Each of the books in the reference set and all four books as a whole provide coverage of disciplines and angles through which the reader can obtain an understanding of the state-of-the-art of dealing with natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change. The books in the reference set complement each other and provide a scientific understanding of our ability to address the issues covered.

Building Power from Below

Author : Carolina Bank Muñoz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501714686
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Building Power from Below written by Carolina Bank Muñoz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In 2008 Walmart acquired a controlling share in a large supermarket chain in Santiago, Chile. As part of the deal Walmart had to accept the unions that were already in place. Since then, Chilean retail and warehouse workers have done something that has seemed impossible for labor in the United States: they have organized even more successful unions and negotiated unprecedented contracts with Walmart. In Building Power from Below, Carolina Bank Muñoz attributes Chilean workers’ success in challenging the world’s largest corporation to their organizations’ commitment to union democracy and building strategic capacity. Chilean workers have spent years building grassroots organizations committed to principles of union democracy. Retail workers’ unions have less structural power, but have significant associational and symbolic power. Their most notable successes have been in fighting for respect and dignity on the job. Warehouse workers by contrast have substantial structural power and have achieved significant economic gains. While the model in Chile cannot necessarily be reproduced in different countries, we can gain insights from the Chilean workers’ approaches, tactics, and strategies.

The World of Wal-Mart

Author : Nick Copeland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135098506
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The World of Wal-Mart written by Nick Copeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart’s success to the failure of American (and global) society to make the Dream available to everyone. It shows how decades of neoliberal economic policies have exposed contradictions at the heart of the Dream, creating an opening for Wal-Mart. The company’s success has generated a host of negative externalities, however, fueling popular ambivalence and organized opposition. The book also describes the strategies that Wal-Mart uses to maintain legitimacy, fend off unions, enter new markets, and cultivate an aura of benevolence and ordinariness, despite these externalities. It focuses on Wal-Mart’s efforts to forge symbolic and affective inclusion, and their self-promotion as a free market solution to social problems of poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction. Finally, the book contrasts the conceptions of freedom and human rights that underlie Wal-Mart’s business model to the alternative visions of freedom forwarded by their critics.

Blockchain in the Global South

Author : Nir Kshetri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031339444
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Blockchain in the Global South written by Nir Kshetri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the unique and unusual characteristics of the blockchain and the industries and markets affected by this technology in the Global South. Its main objectives are to 1) provide a comprehensive review of economic, health, social, political, entrepreneurial, and environmental impacts of blockchain, 2) present evidence from countries, industries, and firms to broaden the understanding of the contexts, mechanisms, and outcomes associated with blockchain projects, and 3) analyze the enablers and opportunities that can be tapped and barriers that may impede the implementation of blockchain projects in these economies. Given that in many way blockchain has a much higher value proposition for economies in the Global South than for their counterparts in the more developed Global North, it has the potential to make up for the lack of effective formal institutions — rules, laws, regulations, and their enforcement — as well as improve administrative aspects, such as maintenance of standards, monitoring and compliance. This work fills a gap in scholarly research and will appeal to researchers interested in the potential of blockchain to boost entrepreneurship, reshape governance, improve supply chain efficiency, and curb corruption in emerging economies.

Big Box USA

Author : Bart Elmore
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646425944
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Big Box USA written by Bart Elmore and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life. The rise of big box retail since the 1960s has transformed environments on both local and global scales. Almost everyone has explored the aisles of big box stores. The allure of “everyday low prices” and brightly colored products of every kind connect shoppers with a global marketplace. Contributors join a growing conversation between business and environmental history, addressing the ways American retail institutions have affected physical and cultural ecologies around the world. Essays on Walmart, Target, Cabela’s, REI, and Bass Pro Shops assess the “bigness” of these superstores from “smokestacks to coat racks” and contend that their ecological impacts are not limited to the footprints of parking lots and manufacturing but also play a didactic role in educating consumers about their relationships with the environment. A model for historians seeking to bring business and environmental histories together in their analyses of merchant capital’s role in the landscapes of everyday life and how it has remade human relationships with nature, Big Box USA is a must-read for students and scholars of the environment, business, sustainability, retail professionals, and a general audience.

Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South

Author : Jonathan Crush
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786431513
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South written by Jonathan Crush and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways in which the rapid urbanization of the Global South is transforming food systems and food supply chains, and the food security of urban populations is an often neglected topic. This international group of authors addresses this profound transformation from a variety of different perspectives and disciplinary lenses, providing an important corrective to the dominant view that food insecurity is a rural problem requiring increases in agricultural production.

Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday

Author : Juanita Elias
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135133607X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday written by Juanita Elias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the ‘everyday’. It brings feminist insights to bear on the emerging International Political Economy (IPE) debates about ‘the everyday’, showing how gender is key to understanding how political economy is enacted and performed at the local level, by non-elites, and via various cultural practices. Drawing on ‘everyday’ IPE and a longer-standing body of feminist scholarship that documents and theorizes the mutually constitutive nature of, on the one hand, global markets, and on the other, households, families, relations of social reproduction and gendered socio-economic practices, this collection charts the lived realities of people and communities across a wide range of sites and spaces of the global political economy. It considers how globalizing capitalism affects and is in turn affected by Argentine sex workers, Nepalese private security contractors, Canadian call centre workers, Southeast Asian domestic workers, workers and players in British bingo halls, working class households in the UK, and much more. It demonstrates, through detailed empirical research, that a gender lens is crucial for understanding how, and on what terms, individuals and households are becoming ever more enmeshed in capitalist social relations, and how they actively and creatively resist these processes. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.

Timeless Business Lessons

Author : Firend Alan Rasch
Publisher : AMii
ISBN 13 : 1696007321
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Timeless Business Lessons written by Firend Alan Rasch and published by AMii. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the global economy enters the 4th industrial revolution and experience fundamental changes, this book offers timeless business lessons on how to succeed in the new economy, regardless of whether you are a CEO, Business executive, an M.B.A. student an entrepreneur, a business owner or a business student. The business roles listed in this book are timeless and help you save time and money to prosper and the new economy. Examples are provided on companies and brands that has failed, and businesses that managed to succeed in the face of new changes and challenges.

Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil

Author : Scott B. Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030746720
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Psychoanalysis and the Global

Author : Ilan Kapoor
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496208595
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and the Global written by Ilan Kapoor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis and the GlObal is about the hole at the heart of the "glObal," meaning the instability and indecipherability that lies at the hub of globalization. The contributors use psychoanalysis to expose the unconscious desires, excesses, and antagonisms that accompany the world of economic flows, cultural circulation, and sociopolitical change. Unlike the mainstream discourse of globalization, which most often assumes unencumbered movement across borders, these contributors uncover what Lacan calls "the Real" of the glObal--its rifts, gaps, exceptions, and contradictions. Psychoanalysis and the GlObal adopts a psychoanalytic lens to highlight the unconscious circuits of enjoyment, racism, and anxiety that trouble, if not undermine, globalization's economic, cultural, and environmental goals or gains. The contributors interrogate how unconscious desires and drives are externalized in our increasingly globalizing world: the ways in which traumas and emotional conflicts are integral to the disjunctures, homogeneities, and contingencies of global interactions; how social passions are manifested and materialized in political economy as much as in climate change, urban architecture, refugee and gender politics, or the growth of neo-populism; and how the unconscious serves as a basis for the rise and breakdown of popular movements against authoritarianism and neoliberal globalization. Psychoanalysis and the GlObal represents a major step forward in understanding globalization and also in extending the range and power of psychoanalytic critiques in, and of, geography.

New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity

Author : Michael Mascarenhas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025302658X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity written by Michael Mascarenhas and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent addition to courses on development, inequality, public policy, and globalization, and it could . . . be read by an audience beyond sociologists.”—American Journal of Sociology Soaring poverty levels and 24-hour media coverage of global disasters have caused a surge in the number of international non-governmental organizations that address suffering on a massive scale. But how are these new global networks transforming the politics and power dynamics of humanitarian policy and practice? In New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity, Michael Mascarenhas considers that issue using water management projects in India and Rwanda as case studies. Mascarenhas analyzes the complex web of agreements ?both formal and informal?that are made between businesses, governments, and aid organizations, as well as the contradictions that arise when capitalism meets humanitarianism. “Insightful . . . provides a scathing critique of the new humanitarianism.” —University of Chicago Press Journals

The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South

Author : Haroon A. Khan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131756720X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South written by Haroon A. Khan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major objectives of good governance is human development. Many worry that without good governance, many developing countries may become failed states. Using one of the worst industrial disasters in Bangladesh to date, Haroon A. Khan helps further our understanding of the importance of bureaucratic capacity for achieving good governance and offers a new paradigm for a merit system to improve governance. In doing so, he introduces the reader to the concept of good governance and its importance by investigating its relationship with failed states, globalization, bureaucratic effectiveness, and human development. The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South will be useful for the students interested in political science, public administration and international relations.

Forests and Globalization

Author : William Nikolakis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317660730
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Forests and Globalization written by William Nikolakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world’s forests. The work has been developed by the "Resources for the Future" Task Force for the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). Four key themes are addressed: the effect of globalization on forests (including future trade flows); plantations as the primary source of forest products and its consequences, including plant breeding and forest health; the effect of new products such as bio-products and markets on forests; and the emergence of forest ecosystem services and their impact on the landscape and human communities. These four themes are examined in detail to map out the impacts of these trends for forests throughout the world and at multiple scales, and how forest research needs to be adapted to address these trends. Overall, the volume provides a major synthesis of current thinking and knowledge on the topic for advanced students, as well as policy-makers and professionals in the forest sector.