Encumbered Behemoth: Wal-Mart, Differential Accumulation and International Retail Restructuring (Preprint)

Encumbered Behemoth: Wal-Mart, Differential Accumulation and International Retail Restructuring (Preprint)
Baines, Joseph. (2015). In Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production. Edited by van der Pijl, Kees. Edward Elgar, pp. 149-166. (Book Chapter; English).

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Abstract or Brief Description

This chapter draws on, and develops, some aspects of the capital as power framework so as to provide the first clear quantitative explication of the company’s power trajectory to date. After rapid growth in the first four decades of its existence, the power of Wal-Mart appears to be flat-lining relative to dominant capital as a whole. The major problems for Wal-Mart lie in the fact that its green-field growth is running into barriers, while its cost cutting measures seem to be approaching a floor. The chapter contends that these problems are in part born out of resistance that Wal-Mart is experiencing at multiple social scales.

Language

English

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Keywords

differential accumulation power resistance supply chains Wal-Mart

Subject

BN Industrial Organization
BN Conflict & Violence
BN Resistance
BN Capital & Accumulation
BN Labour
BN Growth
BN Power
BN International & Global
BN Business Enterprise
BN Value & Price
BN Production
BN Distribution

Depositing User

Jonathan Nitzan

Date Deposited

03 Dec 2014

Last Modified

09 Apr 2016 20:51

URL:

http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/id/eprint/422

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