Adam Reich
Autor(a) de Hidden truth : young men navigating lives in and out of juvenile prison
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Adam D. Reich is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley.
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I particularly enjoyed how the authors unpack the factors that make labor organizing difficult in the retail setting, beyond the typical explanations of right to work laws and distrust of unions. They point to unstable scheduling (reducing collaboration and trust among individuals), pervasive surveillance (from Walmart and from customers), distributed work (preventing workers from 'stopping the line' in the traditional sense), and the threat of 'hundreds of applicants who will take your job tomorrow' that have enabled Walmart to scale poverty-wage jobs without reasonable threat of unionization.
The book is packed with human stories, of the students and of the workers, pointing to a universal desire to be treated with respect at work. In addition, the role of systemic poverty and unsatisfying or violent home-lives in making jobs at Walmart a relative gain. I would recommend this book highly to any studying work or labor activism.
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