Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart

by Adam Reich and Peter Bearman

Book Overview

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 hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers' ability to control their working conditions and their lives.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231188439
• ISBN13: 9780231188432
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.1"