Walmart in China is that rare bird: a multi-authored volume that benefits from the breadth of its contributors' approaches while still maintaining a tight focus and producing a coherent analysis. Walmart may be a case unto itself - indeed, the book's title and content implicitly suggest as much. And to their credit, the authors do not try to generalize beyond the case of the gigantic retailer. Yet they also point out, quite rightly, that Walmart is such a big player, especially in global labour practices and supply chains, that what it does in China has profound implications for the wider industrial and commercial economy of the country and, indeed, the world.
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