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Worn out : how retailers surveil and exploit workers in the digital age and how workers are fighting back / Madison Van Oort.

MIT Press Direct 2023 Trade Books Collection Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Van Oort, Madison, author.
Series:
Labor and technology.
Labor and technology
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Retail trade--United States--Employees.
Retail trade.
Electronic surveillance--United States.
Electronic surveillance.
Retail trade--Social aspects--United States.
Retail trade--United States--Management.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (178 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Summary:
"Worn Out connects scholarship on digital capitalism and surveillance to the specific setting of retail work in fast fashion"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction
How Fashion Became Fast
Algorithmic Scheduling, Unstable Lives
The Automated Heart: Digitization of Service Work
How Retailers Use New Technologies to Surveil Workers
Retail Disruptions: Confronting Digital Surveillance
Conclusion: Refashioning the Future of Work.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes index.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
9780262372763
9780262372770
0-262-37277-0
0-262-37276-2
OCLC:
1348498458

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