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"Acknowledgments". Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains, edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher, New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 2018, pp. ix-xii. https://doi.org/10.7560/315675-001

(2018). Acknowledgments. In C. Bank Muñoz, B. Kenny & A. Stecher (Ed.), Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains (pp. ix-xii). New York, USA: University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/315675-001

2018. Acknowledgments. In: Bank Muñoz, C., Kenny, B. and Stecher, A. ed. Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains. New York, USA: University of Texas Press, pp. ix-xii. https://doi.org/10.7560/315675-001

"Acknowledgments" In Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher, ix-xii. New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7560/315675-001

Acknowledgments. In: Bank Muñoz C, Kenny B, Stecher A (ed.) Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains. New York, USA: University of Texas Press; 2018. p.ix-xii. https://doi.org/10.7560/315675-001

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Situating Walmart in a Global Context: Workplace Cultures, Labor Organizing, and Supply Chains 1
Chapter 1. Walmart in Brazil: From Global Diffusion to National Institutional Embeddedness 29
Chapter 2. Walmart and Labor Conditions in South Africa: Local Retailing, Contract Labor, and Union Challenges 64
Chapter 3. Walmart Workers in Chile: A Case of Union Democracy, Militancy, and Strategic Capacity 87
Chapter 4. Rank-and-File Union Activism in Walmart Argentina 118
Chapter 5. Walmart Culture in the Information Technologies Industry in Mexico 150
Chapter 6. Walmart’s Direct Farmer Program in South Africa: Developmental State Victory or Corporate Whitewash? 181
Chapter 7. Brokering Development: NGOs and Walmart in Nicaragua 199
Chapter 8. Walmart’s Human Traffi cking Problem: The Shrimp Supply Chain in Thailand 222
Final Reflections 242
Contributors 252
Index 255

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Situating Walmart in a Global Context: Workplace Cultures, Labor Organizing, and Supply Chains 1
Chapter 1. Walmart in Brazil: From Global Diffusion to National Institutional Embeddedness 29
Chapter 2. Walmart and Labor Conditions in South Africa: Local Retailing, Contract Labor, and Union Challenges 64
Chapter 3. Walmart Workers in Chile: A Case of Union Democracy, Militancy, and Strategic Capacity 87
Chapter 4. Rank-and-File Union Activism in Walmart Argentina 118
Chapter 5. Walmart Culture in the Information Technologies Industry in Mexico 150
Chapter 6. Walmart’s Direct Farmer Program in South Africa: Developmental State Victory or Corporate Whitewash? 181
Chapter 7. Brokering Development: NGOs and Walmart in Nicaragua 199
Chapter 8. Walmart’s Human Traffi cking Problem: The Shrimp Supply Chain in Thailand 222
Final Reflections 242
Contributors 252
Index 255

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