Revolutionizing Retail

Workers, Political Action, and Social Change
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-47685-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2727 g

There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organizing. Before Revolutionizing Retail, no scholar had captured or analysed the breadth of political action being pursued in this crucial economic sector.
This book was awarded the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies 2015 Book Prize.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coulter, K.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Retail Matters 2. Retail Detail: The Work and the Workers 3. Sales Floor Solidarity: Understanding Union Organizing in Retail 4. Hunger Games and Crying Games: Barriers to Change 5. Diversifying Political Action in Retail 6. The Battle of Ideas: Retail Work, Workers, and Social Change

Über Autor(innen)

Kendra Coulter is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Labour Studies at Brock University, Canada. Her website, RevolutionizingRetail.org, highlights strategies for improving retail work and retail workers' lives. Coulter is the coeditor of "Governing Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government" (2012) and is the author of 15 book chapters and journal articles on work and social justice.