"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...

These writings address the contradictory influences at play in contemporary workplace restructuring, the impact this has on workers' lives and the direction and nature of future changes in workplace practices