Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
1. Beating the Bully
2. Walmart in Chile
3. Leveraging Power
4. Strategic Democracy
5. The Flexible Militancy of Walmart Retail Workers
6. Looking Back and Going Forward
References
Index
Carolina Bank Munoz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College. She is the author of Transnational Tortillas, also from Cornell.
An accessible, insightful, and refreshing contribution.
*Mobilization*
Building Power from Below is an enjoyable read. Muñoz introduces
the union leaders and activists by name. The reader feels an
intimacy with those activists. This book should be read by all
those interested in strengthening democracy, militancy and
strategic capacity in trade unions. It is a demonstration of how
workers even under a neoliberal state and employed by the world's
most anti-union corporation can beat the bully and win.
*Counterfire*
I would highly recommend this book to both labor
activists/organizers and students of labor studies alike. This book
provides a detailed account of successful union organizing against
the powerful, antiunion, transnational employer that is Walmart.
Both union organizers and labor studies students will benefit from
Muñoz's analysis of successful union organization outside of the
Western context.
*Labor Studies Journal*
This book gives us insights of how Walmart employees have been able
to actually reach significant concessions from this giant
corporation. Importantly, this book should not just be read by
scholars interested in employment relations in the Global South.
Academics and activists interested in the different types of power
organizations can have, how to build it, and how to use it, should
all have this on their shelves.
*Work and Occupations*
What Bank Muñoz successfully demonstrates in this book is that
lessons for successful organization can often come from unexpected
places. I recommend this book to scholars of labor politics and
social change; moreover, its short length makes it well suited for
classroom use.
*Contemporary Sociology*
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