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Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action, and Social Change

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Title
Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action, and Social Change
Abstract
Retail workers are a large labor force, yet their jobs are generally devalued and dominated by low wages, precarious conditions, and disrespect. Coulter draws on three years of comparative research on retail workers and political action, including fieldwork in Canada, the United States, and Sweden, to explore what is needed to improve workers' wellbeing and transform retail work. The only book of its kind, Revolutionizing Retail explains the strategies being used to improve retail jobs and retail workers' quality of life, including diverse forms of organizing, public policy, and good management. Coulter analyzes the degree to which current efforts are succeeding, and what lessons they offer about the present and future of work, forms of agency, and class, gender, and race relations. The power of culture, emotions, and workers' personal experiences of political action are at the heart of this engaging discussion of the challenges and possibilities of social change. --Publisher's description
Place
New York
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Date
2014
# of Pages
198 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-137-36467-8
Notes

Contents: Retail matters -- Retail detail: The work and the workers -- Sales floor solidarity: Understanding workers' organizing -- Hunger games and crying games: Barriers to change -- Diversifying political action in retail -- The battle of ideas: Retail work, workers, and social change.

Citation
Coulter, K. (2014). Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action, and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137361165