Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back - Couverture souple

Van Oort, Madison

 
9780262544931: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back
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ISBN 10 : 0262544938 ISBN 13 : 9780262544931
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2023

Synopsis

An immersive, first-hand account of retail worker surveillance and resistance in the digital age.

Technology has sped up the world of retail clothing, rushing affordable, trendy garments to consumers and enriching multinational retail giants like Zara and H&M. But beneath the success of fast fashion, there is a grimmer story to be told—that of the people who do the actual producing and selling. Working undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City, Madison Van Oort observed firsthand how data and surveillance shape the lives of low-status workers in an industry in flux—and how these workers are fighting back. Worn Out provides an on-the-ground look at how technology helps create this just-in-time workforce, how feminized and racialized workers experience and respond to new forms of digital control, and how collective struggles for racial, gender, and economic justice in and around retail spaces inform these workers’ resistance.
 
Worn Out draws on interviews with dozens of front-line workers and labor activists, and on evidence gathered at corporate conferences, to expose the exploitative reality of retail labor in the digital age. Van Oort shows how digital tools lubricate the shift toward just-in-time retail by collecting real-time data on not only customer behavior but also worker performance and how these tools—including automated scheduling platforms, biometric timeclocks, and cashier metrics—increase these workers’ already heightened insecurity. One of the first ethnographies of this “thriving” industry, Van Oort’s book pulls open the curtain between production and consumption and reveals the real cost of fast fashion.

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À propos de l?auteur

Madison Van Oort is an independent scholar in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262544938
ISBN 13 
9780262544931
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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