Inside Toyland : Working Shopping and Social Inequality.

""I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old."" So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and liv...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Christie (Christine L.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkerley : University of California Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Toy industry > United States > Employees.
Clerks (Retail trade) > United States.
Discrimination in employment > United States.
Consumers > United States.
Equality > United States.
Jouets > Industrie > États-Unis > Personnel.
Commis vendeurs (Commerce de détail) > États-Unis.
Consommateurs > États-Unis.
Clerks (Retail trade)
Consumers
Discrimination in employment
Equality
Toy industry > Employees
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1. A Sociologist inside Toy Stores; 2. History of Toy Shopping in America; 3. The Social Organization of Toy Stores; 4. Inequality on the Shopping Floor; 5. Kids in Toyland; 6. Toys and Citizenship; Notes; References; Index.

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