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Deserting the superstoreeveryday agency and moral economy in retail work /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Deserting the superstoreby Noah Shuster.
Reminder of title:	everyday agency and moral economy in retail work /
Author:	Shuster, Noah.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xx, 298 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Retail tradeEmployees.United States
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96614-9
ISBN:	9783031966149$q(electronic bk.)

Deserting the superstoreeveryday agency and moral economy in retail work /
Shuster, Noah.

Deserting the superstoreeveryday agency and moral economy in retail work /[electronic resource] :by Noah Shuster. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xx, 298 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Preface: On Being Working Class in Graduate School -- Introduction: On Retail Disobedience and Working-class Agency -- Part I: Retail Work as a Constrained Decision -- Chapter 1: The Closed Factory, the Cop Car, and the Hiring Poster -- Chapter 2: Last or Only Choice Retail Work -- Chapter 3: Retail Work in a Bleak Economic Landscape -- Part II: Worker Agency in the Superstore Workplace -- Chapter 4: Surveillance Power and Infrapolitics -- Chapter 5: Worker Shrink, New Labor History, and Worker Agency -- Chapter 6: The Moral Economy of Critical Retail Workers -- Chapter 7: Foot-dragging Narratives -- Chapter 8: Theft Narratives and the Sabotage Tradition -- Part III: Deserting the Superstore -- Chapter 9: Turnover, Exit as Voice, and Quitting Narratives -- Chapter 10: Post-retail Narratives of Care, Morality, Corporate Opposition -- Chapter 11: Disobedience and Desertion on Social Media -- Conclusion: Democracy, Climate Collapse, and the Destitution of the Superstore -- Index.

Corporate retail chains, like Walmart and Target, are the largest employers of working-class Americans. And yet, this class of workers is rarely examined as political agents, in contrast to union workers or government employees. What is often presumed about retail workers-that they steal from their employers, are frequently absent for shifts, and present lazy attitudes-is seen as reflective of the personal character of these workers. In Deserting the Superstore, Noah Shuster explores the political agency and power of corporate retail chains employees. He argues these employees are politically aware and politically active but tend to direct their efforts towards disobedience and desertion rather than reform. Through over two dozen interviews, Shuster presents narratives of corporate retail employees experiences of their work and how they take action to attain and preserve dignity in the workplace. This study finds retail workers articulating values that are contrary to capitalist ideology and that encouragingly point towards the possibility of a post-capitalist future among the U.S.'s post-industrial working class. Noah Shuster is Guest Professor of Economic and Public Policy at Sarah Lawrence College.

ISBN: 9783031966149$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-96614-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1000874
Retail trade
--Employees.--United States

LC Class. No.: HD8039.M39

Dewey Class. No.: 331.7930973

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