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Revolutionizing retail : = workers, political action, and social change /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Revolutionizing retail :/ Kendra Coulter.
Reminder of title:	workers, political action, and social change /
Author:	Coulter, Kendra,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 198 pages)
Subject:	Labor movement. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137361165
ISBN:	1137361166 (electronic bk.)

Revolutionizing retail : = workers, political action, and social change /
Coulter, Kendra,1979-

Revolutionizing retail :workers, political action, and social change /Kendra Coulter. - First edition. - 1 online resource (x, 198 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- 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 -- References -- Index.

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.

ISBN: 1137361166 (electronic bk.)

Source: 697604Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

686576
Labor movement.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD8039.M39 / C68 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 322/.2

Revolutionizing retail : = workers, political action, and social change /
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