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Through its wide-ranging and multi-faceted analysis, Walmart in the Global South provides a thought-provoking examination of globalized capital accumulation, the embeddedness of [transnational corporations] within local environments and relations, and the struggle between [transnational corporations] and workers. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies * [Walmart in the Global South] reads like a stolen playbook, explaining how the biggest retailer on the planet has managed to infiltrate, appropriate, exploit, and degrade working conditions around the world...Books like this one are essential to remind consumers and shareholders in the global North that everyday low prices depend on the shocking exploitation of working people around the world. * Contemporary Sociology * An invaluable addition to the literature on modern global capitalism that demonstrates both the company's power to reshape work and work cultures globally and also how worker resistance can force it to make compromises with unions it would never acquiesce to in the United States. * The Latin Americanist *

An invaluable addition to the literature on modern global capitalism that demonstrates both the company's power to reshape work and work cultures globally and also how worker resistance can force it to make compromises with unions it would never acquiesce to in the United States. * The Latin Americanist * [Walmart in the Global South] reads like a stolen playbook, explaining how the biggest retailer on the planet has managed to infiltrate, appropriate, exploit, and degrade working conditions around the world...Books like this one are essential to remind consumers and shareholders in the global North that everyday low prices depend on the shocking exploitation of working people around the world. * Contemporary Sociology * Through its wide-ranging and multi-faceted analysis, Walmart in the Global South provides a thought-provoking examination of globalized capital accumulation, the embeddedness of [transnational corporations] within local environments and relations, and the struggle between [transnational corporations] and workers. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *

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Carolina Bank MuÑoz is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Bridget Kenny is an associate professor of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Antonio Stecher is a professor and dean of the School of Psychology at Universidad Diego Portales.

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