Deserting the Big-Box Store: Coercion, Critique, and Resistance in Contemporary Retail Work

• In Event: The Politics of Unions and the Working Class

Brief Overview

Based on ethnographic background and long interviews, this project considers everyday resistance practices like foot-dragging, stealing, and quitting among big-box retail workers today. Workers engage in infrapolitics, moral economy, and desertion.

Author

• Noah Shuster, The New School for Social Research