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Ladataan... Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart (The Middle Range Series)Tekijä: Adam Reich
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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 hyperrationalized, 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. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I particularly enjoyed how the authors unpack the factors that make labor organizing difficult in the retail setting, beyond the typical explanations of right to work laws and distrust of unions. They point to unstable scheduling (reducing collaboration and trust among individuals), pervasive surveillance (from Walmart and from customers), distributed work (preventing workers from 'stopping the line' in the traditional sense), and the threat of 'hundreds of applicants who will take your job tomorrow' that have enabled Walmart to scale poverty-wage jobs without reasonable threat of unionization.
The book is packed with human stories, of the students and of the workers, pointing to a universal desire to be treated with respect at work. In addition, the role of systemic poverty and unsatisfying or violent home-lives in making jobs at Walmart a relative gain. I would recommend this book highly to any studying work or labor activism.
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