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Tannock, Stuart.

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Stopgap workers: Youth and labor in fastfood and grocery.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stopgap workers: Youth and labor in fastfood and grocery./
Author:	Tannock, Stuart.
Description:	482 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-02, Section: A, page: 0786.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-02A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9961971
ISBN:	9780599658776

Stopgap workers: Youth and labor in fastfood and grocery.
Tannock, Stuart.

Stopgap workers: Youth and labor in fastfood and grocery. - 482 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-02, Section: A, page: 0786.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2000.

Youths in North America often work in what are among the lowest paying, lowest status jobs on the continent---in "dead end jobs" or "McJobs" in the retail and food and entertainment service sectors. As a group, young workers (aged 16--24) have lower wages, fewer benefits, less job security, and are less likely to be unionized than any other age group in the workforce. Employers of young workers, by contrast, frequently rank among the continent's largest, wealthiest and most powerful. Despite their economic marginalization and their importance to North America's service economy, young workers are often ignored by researchers, policy makers and trade unions. Age stratification in the labor market and workplace has not received the attention that race, class and gender stratification have. Workplace cultures have been described primarily for older workers in professional, crafts and manufacturing occupations, but rarely for young workers working in what Oppenheimer and Kalmijn (1995) call "life cycle stopgap jobs" in the service sector. This study addresses such gaps in the research and policy literature by examining the work and union experiences of two groups of young unionized service workers---a group of fastfood workers in Canada, and of grocery workers in the US. Two broad issues are addressed: (1) What is the significance of age and temporary stopgap status for these workers in the workplace? How are young workers positioned and how do young workers position themselves in these sites? (2) How do unions work with young workers in stopgap service jobs? In what ways do unions reduce, transform, or alternatively, reinforce youth marginalization in such workplaces? In focusing on youths at work, this study aims to promote wider consideration of youths as economic producers and not just as consumers. In focusing on unions in the youth labor market, the study aims to draw attention to the possibilities of changing the work experiences of young workers, as well as to highlight problems that arise in the interactions of union institutions and young temporary service workers.

ISBN: 9780599658776Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Stopgap workers: Youth and labor in fastfood and grocery.
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