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Walmart in China

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ISBN-10: 080147731X

ISBN-13: 9780801477317

Edition: 2011

Authors: 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 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…    
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Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.880

Anita Chan is Research Professor at the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney. She is the editor of Walmart in China and Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective , both from Cornell, author of China's Workers under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy and Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism in the Red Guard Generation, and coauthor of Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization.