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When Powers Collide: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters

We expand the sociological study of power struggles in labor markets to consider how the threat of monopsony (a form of buyer power) affects the size and strength of labor unions (a form of worker power). We focus specifically on the interplay of local union membership and the entry of Walmart Supercenters -- a monopsonistic employer and the largest employer in the US.

Ho Ting Hung

Bosco is an MPhil Candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford (St Anne’s College) and the Co-Founder of the Oxford Computational Political Science Group (OCPSG), a research initiative dedicated to advancing the use of evidence-based computational approaches to tackle complex global challenges and supported by the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). He graduated with a BSc in Politics and International Relations (first class honours) from the London S

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