Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil: Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America

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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030746712
• ISBN13: 9783030746711
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"