From Affective Shareholding to OUR Walmart: Organizing Labor in a Post-Union World

From Affective Shareholding to OUR Walmart: Organizing Labor in a Post-Union World

From Affective Shareholding to OUR Walmart: Organizing Labor in a Post-Union World, by Christine Labuski and Nick Copeland. This essay examines OUR Walmart (Organization United for Respect at Walmart), a group of current and former Walmart employees who are fighting for improved working conditions w...

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Main Authors: Christine Labuski, Nicholas Copeland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New York City College of Technology 2015-12-01
Series:NANO
Subjects:
Walmart
labor organizing
shame
corporate culture
affective management
Online Access:https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue8/affective-shareholding-our-walmart-organizing-labor-post-union-world
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title From Affective Shareholding to OUR Walmart: Organizing Labor in a Post-Union World
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publishDate 2015-12-01
description From Affective Shareholding to OUR Walmart: Organizing Labor in a Post-Union World, by Christine Labuski and Nick Copeland. This essay examines OUR Walmart (Organization United for Respect at Walmart), a group of current and former Walmart employees who are fighting for improved working conditions within the company. We situate OUR Walmart's emergence within the breakdown of management strategies that substitute affective and symbolic inclusion for material benefits. We also show how OUR Walmart shames the company over social media by contrasting workers’ precarious lives with the extreme wealth of the Walton family, and redefines respect to include collective and material rights.
topic Walmart
labor organizing
shame
corporate culture
affective management
url https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue8/affective-shareholding-our-walmart-organizing-labor-post-union-world
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