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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). He graduated with a BSc in Politics and International Relations (first class honours) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he studied on a full scholarship and wrote his dissertation on China's cyber sovereignty and AI governance visions using a machine learning approach.

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