Walmart
Made in China
$72.82
- Paperback
220 pages
- Release Date
23 March 2026
Summary
This book tells the story of Walmart’s expansion in China, making the case that it is the story of a major shift in the structure of global capitalism. Walmart, argues Eileen Otis, is a leading actor in the rise of merchant capitalism, wherein the role of the merchant has changed from operating at the whim of industrialists, to leveraging control over large consumer markets. As Walmart’s retail business grew at unprecedented rates across the globe, so too did this business model.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781503646414 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1503646416 |
| Author: | Eileen Otis |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Imprint: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 220 |
| Release Date: | 23 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Globalization in Everyday Life |
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Critics Review
“Otis is a marvelous ethnographer whose resourceful and daring research illuminates the heretofore hidden world of Walmart’s Chinese retail workers and their stores in a fashion no other journalist or scholar has ever attempted. Evocative interviews and the author’s own personal observations allow us to follow the corporate commodity chain from loading dock to shelf to shopping bag, all the while keeping a tight focus on the techno-managerial sources of surveillance and oppression, as well as the creative and covert resistance of thousands of cashiers and sales workers. This is an excellent book!” —Nelson Lichtenstein, author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created A Brave New World of Business
Eileen Otis
Eileen M. Otis is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. She is the author of Markets and Bodies (Stanford, 2011).
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