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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.
Governments are more than formal political institutions, they are
places of work for thousands of women and men, and powerful social,
cultural, and economic sites that shape the lives of all people.
This collection demonstrates how anthropologists can enrich our
understandings of government by exploring the labor of those who
govern, and how the dynamics of culture are at the heart of
government actions that justify, modify, and reproduce political
action. By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research
in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume
illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of
government actors in local, regional, and national contexts.
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.
By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in
legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume
illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of
government actors in local, regional, and national contexts.
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