Raising Retail

Organizing Retail Workers in Canada and the United States

Bibliographic Data

ID11229947
AuthorsKendra Coulter (0000-0002-0639-9169, Brock University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume38
Issue1
Pages47-65
Publication date2013-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLabor Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0160-449X • E-ISSN: 1538-9758
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0160449x13486700
OpenAlexW2008154196
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited31

Retail workers are a significant but largely unorganized group in Canada and the United States. However, in recent years, there has been a marked increase in efforts to organize retail workers, including pursuit of innovative structures and strategies. The author focuses on the dominant threads of contemporary retail organizing work in Canada and the United States, outlining three current organizing vehicles: unionization, store-based networks, and occupation or sector-based associations. The author then reflects on the strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities of these approaches, independently and collectively, and emphasizes the need to confront the social and cultural as well as the economic devaluation of retail workers

Business · Devaluation · Raising (metalworking · Retail sales · Strengths and weaknesses · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Finance · Marketing

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