LEADER 05313nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910827948903321 005 20240416113844.0 010 $a0-8014-6268-1 010 $a0-8014-6267-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462672 035 $a(CKB)2550000000062986 035 $a(EBL)3138262 035 $a(OCoLC)922998269 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542442 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11375826 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542442 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510050 035 $a(PQKB)10873371 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138262 035 $a(DE-B1597)534280 035 $a(OCoLC)956658952 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462672 035 $a(OCoLC)760056433 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58487 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10508788 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL769566 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000062986 100 $a20110518d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWalmart in China /$fedited by Anita Chan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cILR Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-7731-X 311 $a0-8014-5020-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWalmart's long march to China : how a mid-American retailer came to stake its future on the Chinese economy / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Outsourcing in China : Walmart and Chinese manufacturers / Xue Hong -- Walmartization, corporate social responsibility, and the labor standards of toy factories in South China / Yuu Xiaomin and Pun Ngai -- Made in China : work and wages in Walmart supplier factories / Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu -- Corporate cadres : management and corporate culture at Walmart China / David J. Davies -- A store manager's success story / David J. Davies and Taylor Seeman -- Practicing cheer : the diary of a low-level supervisor at a Walmart China store / Scott E. Myers and Anita Chan ; translation by Scott E. Myers -- Working in Walmart, Kunming : technology, outsourcing, and retail globalization / Eileen M. Otis -- Unionizing Chinese Walmart stores / Anita Chan -- Did unionization make a difference? : work conditions and trade union activities at Chinese Walmart stores / Jonathan Unger, Diana Beaumont, and Anita Chan -- Workers and communities versus Walmart : a comparison of organized resistance in the United States and China / Katie Quan. 330 $aWalmart and "Made in China" are practically synonymous; Walmart imports some 70 percent of its merchandise from China. Walmart is now also rapidly becoming a major retail presence there, with close to two hundred Walmarts in more than a hundred Chinese cities. What happens when the world's biggest retailer and the world's biggest country do business with each other? In this book, a group of thirteen experts from several disciplines examine the symbiotic but strained relationship between these giants. The book shows how Walmart began cutting costs by bypassing its American suppliers and sourcing directly from Asia and how Walmart's sheer size has trumped all other multinationals in squeezing procurement prices and, as a by-product, driving down Chinese workers' wages.China is also an inviting frontier for Walmart's global superstore expansion. As China's middle class grows, the chain's Western image and affordable goods have become popular. Walmart's Arkansas headquarters exports to the Chinese stores a unique corporate culture and management ideology, which oddly enough are reminiscent of Mao-era Chinese techniques for promoting loyalty. Three chapters separately detail the lives of a Walmart store manager, a lower-level store supervisor, and a cashier. Another chapter focuses on employees' wages, "voluntary" overtime, and the stores' strict labor discipline. In 2006, the official Chinese trade union targeted Walmart, which is antilabor in its home country, and succeeded in setting up union branches in all the stores. Walmart in China reveals the surprising outcome.Contributors: Diana Beaumont, coeditor of China Labor News Translations; Anita Chan, University of Technology, Sydney; David J. Davies, Hamline University; Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara; Scott E. Myers, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Eileen Otis, University of Oregon; Pun Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley; Taylor Seeman, Hamline University; Kaxton Siu, Australian National University; Jonathan Unger, Australian National University; Xue Hong, East China Normal University; Yu Xiaomin, Beijing Normal University 606 $aDiscount houses (Retail trade)$zChina 606 $aDiscount houses (Retail trade)$zUnited States 606 $aBusiness enterprises, Foreign$zChina 615 0$aDiscount houses (Retail trade) 615 0$aDiscount houses (Retail trade) 615 0$aBusiness enterprises, Foreign 676 $a381/.1490951 701 $aChan$b Anita$0269067 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827948903321 996 $aWalmart in China$94124694 997 $aUNINA