Labor contestation at Walmart Brazil : limits of global diffusion in Latin America

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    • Martin, Scott B.
    • Veiga, João Paulo Candia
    • Galhera, Katiuscia M.

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Labor contestation at Walmart Brazil : limits of global diffusion in Latin America

Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Cândia Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera

(Governance, development, and social inclusion in Latin America)(Palgrave pivot)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

Chapter 1. Introduction: Labor Contestation at Walmart in Latin America as Test Case of Global Diffusion by MultinationalsChapter 2. Mediations of Global Diffusion: Walmart Meets National Institutions and Nested Agents Chapter 3. Testing Distant Waters: Walmart's Early Years in Brazil, 1995-2002 Chapter 4. Expansion, Conflictual Cooperation, and Rising Legal Scrutiny: 2003-2014 Chapter 5. Divergent National Patterns of Labor Contestation: Comparisons with Argentina, Chile, and Mexico Chapter 6. Labor Contestation Amidst Restructuring, Flexible Labor Reforms, and Walmart's Exit from Brazil, 2015-2018 Chapter 7. Conclusion: Failed Global Diffusion, Walmart's Exit, and National Institutions

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