{"product_id":"labor-contestation-at-walmart-brazil-limits-of-global-diffusion-in-latin-america-hardcover","title":"Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil: Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eScott B. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoão Paulo Cândia Veiga\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatiuscia Moreno Galhera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott B. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in International Affairs at Columbia University, and The New School, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoão Paulo Cândia Veiga\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor and Chair of Political Science of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatiuscia Moreno Galhera\u003c\/b\u003e is Visiting Faculty at Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott B. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Regular Lecturer in International Affairs at Columbia University, USA, and The New School, New York, and has also taught at Yale, Princeton, and Sarah Lawrence College. Among his publications on employment relations and social and industrial development in the Americas, he co-authored \u003ci\u003eEl Estado\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ede Bienestar ante la Globalización: El Caso de Norteamérica\u003c\/i\u003e ( 2012) and was co-editor and contributor to \u003ci\u003eCompetitividade e Desenvolvimento: Atores e Instituições Locais\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eThe New Politics of Inequality: Rethinking Participation and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoão Paulo Cândia Veiga\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, which he chairs, and a Researcher at the University's Center for International Negotiations (CAENI). He has (co)authored or (co)edited four books on labor rights, corporate social responsibility, and regional economic integration in Brazil and the Mercosur region, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Child Labor \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), and published articles in such international journals as \u003ci\u003eLabor Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatiuscia Moreno Galhera\u003c\/b\u003e is Visiting Faculty at Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, was a Visiting Scholar at Penn State University, USA, and a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil. Among her works on gender, labor, and global value chains is \"Transnational Corporations,\" \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e (2020, with S.B. Martin and J.P. Veiga).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 309\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099961626759,"sku":"9783030746711","price":129.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c9d29bcaa703afb0dd4268ec2a7ef826.webp?v=1732379678","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/labor-contestation-at-walmart-brazil-limits-of-global-diffusion-in-latin-america-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}