Re: Precarization was: Re: AUT: Backward workers, was: Negri and Charleton

["Karl howeth" <vaneigem25@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is the title of this book on Walmart and where can I get a copy? Sounds
interesting
Karl

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: Re: Precarization  was: Re: AUT: Backward workers, was: Negri and
>	Charleton Heston?
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:41:22 -0500
>
>Thiago Oppermann wrote:
>
>>I am, of course, using Wal Mart as a metaphor here, but it strikes me that
>>this company has used certain ideological instruments, notably
>>Christianity
>>and The Family, as modes for the control of workers.
>
>My wife has just published a book on Wal-Mart, focusing on its
>discrimination against women (Liza Featherstone, Selling Women Short, Basic
>Books). There are a lot of worker interviews in the book, and it's worth
>reading not only for its main topic, but also as a measure of the
>consciousness of the U.S. working class, or at least its female half. (I'm
>not biased, of course.) In a phrase, it's really really underdeveloped.
>
>The view of Wal-Mart as a "Christian" and "family-oriented" company isn't
>something the company has to spend a lot of time propagating - the workers
>(even those involved in the class-action lawsuit against the company for
>its egregious sexism) do it on their own. Many workers are shocked when
>they discover that this Christian/family-centered company behaves so badly.
>A large part of this myth emerges from fictitious views of founder Sam
>Walton, whom they imagine to have been a good Christian family man, when in
>fact he never went to church and saw little of his family. They also
>imagine that the company got worse after his death (about 10 years ago),
>which is another fantasy.
>
>Doug
>
>
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Karl




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