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Record Nr.

UNINA9910502666203321

Autore

Martin Scott B. <1961->

Titolo

Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil : Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America / / by Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Cândia Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2021

ISBN

9783030746728

3030746720

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 pages)

Collana

Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America, , 2569-1333

Disciplina

658.878

331.1191381456413098

Soggetti

Political science

Economic development

Regionalism

Political Science

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Scott B. Martin is a Lecturer in International Affairs at Columbia University, and The New School, USA. João Paulo Cândia Veiga is Assistant Professor and Chair of Political Science of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Katiuscia Moreno Galhera is VisitingFaculty at Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Brazil.