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Graduate Student, Social Anthropology
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John Gledhill
Nina Glick-Schiller |
About
From September 2009 to September 2010 I am conducting fieldwork in the company of retail workers in Flint, Michigan. While I have yet to finish collecting my data, let alone analyze it, thus far several interesting themes have surfaced, including:
- the role of retail jobs (and the retail labor union) in a post-industrial economy;
- the perceived/imagined nature, power, and obligations of the company, “the market”, and the union;
- workers’ means of coping with pressures exerted by a recent turn toward neo-Taylorism in the workplace;
- the notion of getting “trapped” in retail, as well as finding a "way out"; and
- reconciling skill and dignity with the question of caring about low-pay, low-status jobs.
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Master's thesis (CIESAS-Sureste): "El problema de la responsabilidad social corporativa: La empresa Coca-Cola en Los Altos de Chiapas"
B.A. thesis (Albion College): "In Search of Legitimacy: The Case of Buddhist Nuns in Burma".
