Working for respect : community and conflict at Walmart / Adam Reich and Peter Bearman.
2018
HF5429.215.U6 R45 2018eb
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Title
Working for respect : community and conflict at Walmart / Adam Reich and Peter Bearman.
ISBN
9780231547826 (electronic book)
023154782X (electronic book)
9780231188425
0231188420
023154782X (electronic book)
9780231188425
0231188420
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 332 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
HF5429.215.U6 R45 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.7/613811490973
Summary
"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyper-rationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers' ability to control their working conditions and their lives. In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. They show why traditional unions have been unable to organize service-sector workers in places like Walmart and offer provocative suggestions for new strategies and directions. Drawing on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, Working for Respect is a sophisticated reconsideration of the modern workplace that makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality and the centrality of the experience of work in a fair economy"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Bearman, Peter S., 1956- author.
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Middle range.
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Working for respect.
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Table of Contents
Pathways
The shop floor
The structure of domination and control
Making contact
Social ties and social change
OUR Walmart on the line
OUR Walmart.
The shop floor
The structure of domination and control
Making contact
Social ties and social change
OUR Walmart on the line
OUR Walmart.