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- The Big Sell
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
- Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Doussard demonstrates that the decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers that go far beyond wage cuts.
- Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Employers increasingly use part-time scheduling to decrease costs and crush attempts at worker organizing. Scheduling software now cuts shifts into chunks as small as 15-minutes. Last-minute schedule changes result when the software predicts customer traffic based on the weather forecast or recent sales patterns. Most retail workers now don't know their schedules a week ahead of time, and often have shifts added or cancelled at the last minute. Erratic scheduling can also make it impossible for parttime workers to hold two jobs, because they never know when they will be available.
- 45 Days of Solidarity
How Verizon workers outmatched the country's largest telecommunications company.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The strike by 39,000 Verizon workers -- members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) -- ended after forty-five days with a tentative agreement announced late last week.
- How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers Lives Hell
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Whatever it's called – just-in-time scheduling, on-call staffing, on-demand work, independent contracting, or the "share economy" -- the result is the same: No predictability, no economic security.
- KPMG Management Services LP
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Retail Council of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Retail Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to retailing and the retail industry in the Sources directory for the media.
- Retail Workers Fight 'Just in Time' Scheduling
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
On-call shift scheduling is rough on a largely part-time and female work force trying to keep up with families, school and second jobs. Some workers are asking for better terms.
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2005
A documentary film about the largest company on earth, featuring the stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to survive in a Wal-Mart world.
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