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In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers a nuanced, ambitious, and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in the history of American commerce and industry: the warehouse, and all its many permutations. She traces the progression from the bonded warehouse of the nineteenth century to today's foreign-trade zones, enclaves where goods are processed while simultaneously inside the United States and outside US customs territory. Foreign-trade zones channel jobs to American workers by converting American cities into international ports, and to understand them, Orenstein tells us, we should look at them in the simplest of terms: as warehouses. Going further, Orenstein contends that these zones-nearly 800 of which are scattered across the United States-are emblematic of how warehouses have begun to supplant factories on the terrain of logistics. In the age of Amazon and Walmart, circulation is so crucial to how and where goods are produced that it is increasingly inseparable from production, such that warehouses rank as some of the most pivotal spaces of global capitalism. Drawing from cultural geography, cultural history, and political economy, and vividly documented with photos, ads, maps, and other ephemera, Out of Stock nimbly demonstrates the centrality of warehouses for corporations, workers, cities, and empires.
Warehouses --- Free ports and zones --- Manufacturing industries --- Trade regulation --- History. --- Amazon. --- Walmart. --- commerce. --- cultural history. --- empire. --- factory. --- foreign-trade zone. --- industry. --- logistics. --- territory.
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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 retailer and the world's biggest country do business with each other? In this book, a group of thirteen experts from several disciplines examine the symbiotic but strained relationship between these giants. The book shows how Walmart began cutting costs by bypassing its American suppliers and sourcing directly from Asia and how Walmart's sheer size has trumped all other multinationals in squeezing procurement prices and, as a by-product, driving down Chinese workers' wages.China is also an inviting frontier for Walmart's global superstore expansion. As China's middle class grows, the chain's Western image and affordable goods have become popular. Walmart's Arkansas headquarters exports to the Chinese stores a unique corporate culture and management ideology, which oddly enough are reminiscent of Mao-era Chinese techniques for promoting loyalty. Three chapters separately detail the lives of a Walmart store manager, a lower-level store supervisor, and a cashier. Another chapter focuses on employees' wages, "voluntary" overtime, and the stores' strict labor discipline. In 2006, the official Chinese trade union targeted Walmart, which is antilabor in its home country, and succeeded in setting up union branches in all the stores. Walmart in China reveals the surprising outcome.Contributors: Diana Beaumont, coeditor of China Labor News Translations; Anita Chan, University of Technology, Sydney; David J. Davies, Hamline University; Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara; Scott E. Myers, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Eileen Otis, University of Oregon; Pun Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley; Taylor Seeman, Hamline University; Kaxton Siu, Australian National University; Jonathan Unger, Australian National University; Xue Hong, East China Normal University; Yu Xiaomin, Beijing Normal University
Discount houses (Retail trade) --- Business enterprises, Foreign --- Wal-Mart (Firm) --- Discount dealers --- Discount department stores --- Discount stores --- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. --- Walmart (Firm) --- 沃尔玛 --- Price cutting --- Rebates --- Stores, Retail --- E-books
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Das Buch nimmt den Leser als intellektuelles Abenteuer auf eine Reise durch eine sorgfältig zusammengestellte Auswahl von 120 Orten, die als Metaphern der zeitgenössischen "Kultur" verstanden werden können und somit den Zustand unserer heutigen Welt wiederspiegeln. Diese Orte, die über alle sieben Kontinente verteilt sind, von den Tiefen des Ozeans bis zum Weltraum, gliedern sich in sechs Kapitel: Paradiese, Utopien, Maschinen, Ungeheuer, Ruinen und Instrumente. Das Spektrum reicht vom Apple Park von Steve Jobs in Kalifornien über einen Nationalpark in Costa Rica, eine kleine Feldstation für den Schutz der Orang Utans auf Borneo, Afrikas Grüne Mauer, das Trump-Resort Mar-a-Lago bis hin zum Grenzzaun zwischen den USA und Mexiko. Die Publikation offeriert eine Grand Tour zu den wichtigsten Orten unserer Zeit. Eine Reise um die Erde von heute der ganz besonderen Art Mit eigens für diese Publikation erstellten, maßgefertigten Karten The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments. The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the world today. A unique and fascinating journey around the world of today Featuring custom-made maps created especially for this publication
Burj Khalifa. --- Chernobyl. --- Contemporary culture. --- Mar-a-Lago. --- Tesla Gigafactory. --- The united nations. --- USA Mexico border. --- Walmart. --- Yellowstone. --- amazon. --- apple park. --- black lives matter plaza. --- burning man. --- cancer alley. --- fracking. --- landscape architecture. --- paradise. --- trump. --- urbanism. --- utopia. --- worldwide journey.
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Discount houses (Retail trade) --- Management. --- Wal-Mart (Firm) --- 461 Bedrijfsleven --- 658.11 --- Kinds and forms of enterprise --- Wal-Mart (Firm). --- 658.11 Kinds and forms of enterprise --- Discount dealers --- Discount department stores --- Discount stores --- Price cutting --- Rebates --- Stores, Retail --- Management --- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. --- Walmart (Firm) --- 沃尔玛 --- United States
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Wal-Mart is America’s largest retailer. The national chain of stores is a powerful stand-in of both the promise and perils of free market capitalism. Yet it is also often the target of public outcry for its labor practices, to say nothing of class-action lawsuits, and a central symbol in America’s increasingly polarized political discourse over consumption, capitalism and government regulations. In many ways the battle over Wal-Mart is the battle between “Main Street” and “Wall Street” as the fate of workers under globalization and the ability of the private market to effectively distribute precious goods like health care take center stage. In Wal-Mart Wars, Rebekah Massengill shows that the economic debates are not about dollars and cents, but instead represent a conflict over the deployment of deeper symbolic ideas about freedom, community, family, and citizenship. Wal-Mart Wars argues that the family is not just a culture wars issue to be debated with regard to same-sex marriage or the limits of abortion rights; rather, the family is also an idea that shapes the ways in which both conservative and progressive activists talk about economic issues, and in the process, construct different moral frameworks for evaluating capitalism and its most troubling inequalities. With particular attention to political activism and the role of big business to the overall economy, Massengill shows that the fight over the practices of this multi-billion dollar corporation can provide us with important insight into the dreams and realities of American capitalism.
Marketing --- Retail trade. --- Consumer goods --- Domestic marketing --- Retail marketing --- Retail trade --- Industrial management --- Aftermarkets --- Selling --- Retail industry --- Retailing --- Commerce --- Shopping centers --- Wholesale trade --- Political aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Wal-Mart (Firm) --- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. --- Walmart (Firm) --- 沃尔玛 --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Political aspects --- E-books
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A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In 2008 Walmart acquired a controlling share in a large supermarket chain in Santiago, Chile. As part of the deal Walmart had to accept the unions that were already in place. Since then, Chilean retail and warehouse workers have done something that has seemed impossible for labor in the United States: they have organized even more successful unions and negotiated unprecedented contracts with Walmart.In Building Power from Below, Carolina Bank Muñoz attributes Chilean workers' success in challenging the world's largest corporation to their organizations' commitment to union democracy and building strategic capacity. Chilean workers have spent years building grassroots organizations committed to principles of union democracy. Retail workers' unions have less structural power, but have significant associational and symbolic power. Their most notable successes have been in fighting for respect and dignity on the job. Warehouse workers by contrast have substantial structural power and have achieved significant economic gains. While the model in Chile cannot necessarily be reproduced in different countries, we can gain insights from the Chilean workers' approaches, tactics, and strategies.
Labor movement --- Labor unions --- Discount houses (Retail trade) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- Industrial unions --- Labor, Organized --- Labor organizations --- Organized labor --- Trade-unions --- Unions, Labor --- Unions, Trade --- Working-men's associations --- Societies --- Central labor councils --- Guilds --- Syndicalism --- Discount dealers --- Discount department stores --- Discount stores --- Price cutting --- Rebates --- Stores, Retail --- Organizing --- Employees --- Wal-Mart (Firm) --- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. --- Walmart (Firm) --- 沃尔玛
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Presents a collection of essays that examine the largest corporation in America and includes information on its history and development as well as its impact on the American economy.
Discount houses (Retail trade) --- Employee fringe benefits --- Labor unions --- Wages --- #SBIB:316.334.2A460 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A527 --- #SBIB:33H23 --- Discount dealers --- Discount department stores --- Discount stores --- Price cutting --- Rebates --- Stores, Retail --- Management --- Arbeidssociologie: patronale strategieën: algemeen --- Organisatiesociologie: arbeidssituatie en arbeidsomstandigheden: horeca, handel en herstellingen --- Problemen van de onderneming: handel en diensten --- Wal-Mart (Firm) --- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. --- Walmart (Firm) --- 沃尔玛 --- Management. --- Organization theory --- United States --- United States of America
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Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce-young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work-Walmartism-in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers' ability to control their working conditions and their lives.In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. They show why traditional unions have been unable to organize service-sector workers in places like Walmart and offer provocative suggestions for new strategies and directions. Drawing on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, Working for Respect is a sophisticated reconsideration of the modern workplace that makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality and the centrality of the experience of work in a fair economy.
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Now that Wal-Mart has conquered the US, can it conquer the world? As Wal-Mart World shows, the corporation is certainly trying. For a number of years, Wal-Mart has been the largest company in the United States. Now, though, it is the largest company in the world. Its global labor practices and outsourcing strategies represent for many what contemporary economic globalization is all about. But Wal-Mart is not standing still, and is opening up stores everywhere. From Germany to Beijing to Mexico City to Tokyo, more than a billion shoppers can now hunt for bargains at a Wal-Mart superstore. Wal-M
339.3 --- 658.11 --- 911.3:33 --- Binnenlandse handel. Binnenlandse markt --(z.o {658.81} distributie) --- Kinds and forms of enterprise --- Economic geography --- International business enterprises --- International economic relations. --- Management. --- Wal-Mart (Firm) --- 658.11 Kinds and forms of enterprise --- 339.3 Binnenlandse handel. Binnenlandse markt --(z.o {658.81} distributie) --- International economic relations --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- Management --- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. --- Walmart (Firm) --- 沃尔玛 --- International business enterprises. --- Marketing & Sales --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Globalization.
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Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory-Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole's The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own dialectic. While his contemporaries rejected premodern dialectic as outdated dogma, Hegel embraced both its emphasis on language as thought and its fascination with the categories of identity and difference, creating what we now recognize as theory, distinct from systematic philosophy. Not content merely to change philosophy, Hegel also used this dialectic to expose the persistent archaism of modern life itself, Cole shows, establishing a method of social analysis that has influenced everyone from Marx and the nineteenth-century Hegelians, to Nietzsche and Bakhtin, all the way to Deleuze and Jameson. By uncovering these theoretical filiations across time, The Birth of Theory will not only change the way we read Hegel, but also the way we think about the histories of theory. With chapters that powerfully reanimate the overly familiar topics of ideology, commodity fetishism, and political economy, along with a groundbreaking reinterpretation of Hegel's famous master/slave dialectic, The Birth of Theory places the disciplines of philosophy, literature, and history in conversation with one another in an unprecedented way. Daring to reconcile the sworn enemies of Hegelianism and Deleuzianism, this timely book will revitalize dialectics for the twenty-first century.
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