The Battle of Ideas: Retail Work, Workers, and Social Change

Kendra Coulter

Chapter chapter 6 in Revolutionizing Retail, 2014, pp 151-171 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this book, I have examined retail work and political action in the sector, to explore what is needed to revolutionize retail. The answers are about both the destination and the journey. In other words, what would it look and feel like to transform retail work so workers’ lives are improved and, ideally, transformed? What changes are needed, and how could they be secured? In this chapter, I synthesize the data and strive to answer these questions. I also examine to what degree current efforts are revolutionizing retail and what lessons they offer about the challenges and possibilities of social change and the future of work.

Keywords: Minimum Wage; Collective Bargaining; Retail Sector; Union Representative; Increase Minimum Wage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137361165_6

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