As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates
media and academic debate about the global expansion of
transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in
retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a
monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart must confront and
adapt to diverse policies and practices pertaining to regulation,
economy, history, union organization, preexisting labor cultures,
and civil society in every country into which it enters. This
transnational aspect of the Walmart story, including the diversity
and flexibility of its strategies and practices outside the United
States, is mostly unreported. Walmart in the Global South presents
empirical case studies of Walmart’s labor practices and supply
chain operations in a number of countries, including Chile, Brazil,
Argentina, Nicaragua, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand. It
assesses the similarities and differences in Walmart’s acceptance
into varying national contexts, which reveals when and how state
regulation and politics have served to redirect company practice
and to what effect. Regulatory context, state politics, trade
unions, local cultures, and global labor solidarity emerge as
vectors with very different force around the world. The volume’s
contributors show how and why foreign workers have successfully,
though not uniformly, driven changes in Walmart’s corporate
culture. This makes Walmart in the Global South a practical guide
for organizations that promote social justice and engage in worker
struggles, including unions, worker centers, and other nonprofit
entities.
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