TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reich,Adam D.
AU  - Bearman,Peter S.
TI  - Working for respect: community and conflict at Walmart 
T2  - The middle range
SN  - 9780231547826
AV  - HF5429.215.U6 R45 2018eb
U1  - 331.7/613811490973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Wal-Mart (Firm)
KW  - Employees
KW  - fast
KW  - Discount houses (Retail trade)
KW  - United States
KW  - Management
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Retail trade
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Corporations
KW  - Commerce de détail
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Sociétés
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Workplace Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pathways -- The shop floor -- The structure of domination and control -- Making contact -- Social ties and social change -- OUR Walmart on the line -- OUR Walmart
N2  - "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"--
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