Format:
1 Online-Ressource (326 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030746728
Series Statement:
Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America Ser
Note:
Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Praise for Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Labor Contestation at Walmart in Latin America as Test Case of Global Diffusion by Multinationals -- Introduction -- The Argument in Brief -- Research Strategy -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Mediations of Global Diffusion: Walmart Meets National Institutions and Nested Agents -- National Institutional Embeddedness and Gradual Institutional Change -- Global Retail Work: Structural Realities, National Institutional Dynamics, and Workplace Regimes -- Re-Casting Views on Walmart: Between Normalization and Exceptionalism -- References -- 3 Testing Distant Waters: Walmart's Early Years in Brazil, 1995-2002 -- Global Supermarket Expansion and Testing the Waters in Brazil -- Waves of Walmart Expansion -- Initial Years in Brazil -- Unions, Labor Relations, and Human Resource Management -- Walmart's Work Flexibility Model: Transfer with Minor Adaptations -- References -- 4 Expansion, Conflictual Cooperation, and Rising Legal Scrutiny: 2003-2014 -- Booming National Economy and Evolving Firm Strategy -- Embedded Agency Amidst Thickening Labor Institutions -- Change and Continuity in Labor Relations Institutions -- Elusive Engagement -- Mounting Legal Actions Against Walmart -- Demographics, Precariousness, and Walmart-Style Work Flexibility -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Divergent National Patterns of Labor Contestation Surrounding Walmart: Comparisons with Argentina, Chile, and Mexico -- Slight Variations on a Theme: Anti-unionism and Repressive Familialism in Work Culture -- Chile -- Argentina -- Mexico -- The Fictitious "Walmart Family" -- Contestation in Chile: Broad Similarities with Brazil -- Argentina: Limits of Resistance and Scrutiny
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Mexico and Its Labor Institutions: Tailor-Made for Walmart's Largest Foreign Outpost -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 6 Labor Contestation Amidst Restructuring, Flexible Labor Reforms, and Walmart's Exit from Brazil, 2015-2018 -- Walmart Last Years in Brazil: Turbulent Times -- Conflictual Cooperation in Hard Times -- Work Flexibility and Gradual Institutional Change -- Local Adaptation and Resistance to National Reform: Collective Bargaining -- Union Survival Strategies -- Serial Offender: Legal Claims Against Walmart -- Walmart's Competitive Decline and Market Exit -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 7 Conclusion: Failed Global Diffusion, Walmart's Exit, and National Institutions -- Global Diffusion Meets National Institutions and Agents -- The Walmart Exit in Broader Comparative Perspective -- Why Did Walmart Linger so Long in Brazil? -- Post-Script on Advent Ownership: From Walmart to Grupo BIG -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Martin, Scott B. Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 ISBN 9783030746711
Language:
English
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