Working for Respect : : Community and Conflict at Walmart / / Adam Reich, Peter Bearman.

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 hyperra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The Middle Range Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 11 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Real, Real Walmart
  • 1. Pathways
  • 2. The Shop Floor
  • 3. The Structure of Domination and Control
  • 4. Making Contact
  • 5. Social Ties and Social Change
  • 6. OUR Walmart on the Line
  • 7. Our Walmart
  • Appendix: The Neural Signatures of Group Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index