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Retailing Trends AlterLinks Topic Index 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. Envision Sales Inc. Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization 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. Retail Council of Canada Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization PJ Wade--The Catalyst Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization

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