Walmart in China / edited by Anita Chan.

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"Walmart and "Made in China" are practically synonymous; Walmart imports some 70 percent of its merchandise from China. Walmart is now also rapidly becoming a major retail presence there, with close to two hundred Walmarts in more than a hundred Chinese cities. What happens when the world's biggest...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chan, Anita
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Wal-Mart (Firm)
Discount houses (Retail trade) > China.
Discount houses (Retail trade) > United States.
Business enterprises, Foreign > China.
Physical Description:vii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Walmart's long march to China : how a mid-American retailer came to stake its future on the Chinese economy / Nelson Lichtenstein
  • Outsourcing in China : Walmart and Chinese manufacturers / Xue Hong
  • Walmartization, corporate social responsibility, and the labor standards of toy factories in South China / Yuu Xiaomin and Pun Ngai
  • Made in China : work and wages in Walmart supplier factories / Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu
  • Corporate cadres : management and corporate culture at Walmart China / David J. Davies
  • A store manager's success story / David J. Davies and Taylor Seeman
  • Practicing cheer : the diary of a low-level supervisor at a Walmart China store / Scott E. Myers and Anita Chan ; translation by Scott E. Myers
  • Working in Walmart, Kunming : technology, outsourcing, and retail globalization / Eileen M. Otis
  • Unionizing Chinese Walmart stores / Anita Chan
  • Did unionization make a difference? : work conditions and trade union activities at Chinese Walmart stores / Jonathan Unger, Diana Beaumont, and Anita Chan
  • Workers and communities versus Walmart : a comparison of organized resistance in the United States and China / Katie Quan.