Author: United States. Women's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Careers for Women in Retailing
Author: United States. Women's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Careers for Women in Retailing
Author: Shirley Bosshard GrossmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Careers for Women in Retailing
Author: Shirley Bosshard GrossmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Careers for Women in Retailing
Author: Shirley Bosshard GrossmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Where Bad Jobs Are Better
Author: Francoise CarrePublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448707
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Retail is now the largest employer in the United States. For the most part, retail jobs are “bad jobs” characterized by low wages, unpredictable work schedules, and few opportunities for advancement. However, labor experts Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly show that these conditions are not inevitable. In Where Bad Jobs Are Better, they investigate retail work across different industries and seven countries to demonstrate that better retail jobs are not just possible, but already exist. By carefully analyzing the factors that lead to more desirable retail jobs, Where Bad Jobs Are Better charts a path to improving job quality for all low-wage jobs. In surveying retail work across the United States, Carré and Tilly find that the majority of retail workers receive low pay and nearly half work part-time, which contributes to high turnover and low productivity. Jobs staffed predominantly by women, such as grocery store cashiers, pay even less than retail jobs in male-dominated fields, such as consumer electronics. Yet, when comparing these jobs to similar positions in Western Europe, Carré and Tilly find surprising differences. In France, though supermarket cashiers perform essentially the same work as cashiers in the United States, they receive higher pay, are mostly full-time, and experience lower turnover and higher productivity. And unlike the United States, where many retail employees are subject to unpredictable schedules, in Germany, retailers are required by law to provide their employees notice of work schedules six months in advance. The authors show that disparities in job quality are largely the result of differing social norms and national institutions. For instance, weak labor regulations and the decline of unions in the United States have enabled retailers to cut labor costs aggressively in ways that depress wages and discourage full-time work. On the other hand, higher minimum wages, greater government regulation of work schedules, and stronger collective bargaining through unions and works councils have improved the quality of retail jobs in Europe. As retail and service work continue to expand, American employers and policymakers will have to decide the extent to which these jobs will be good or bad. Where Bad Jobs Are Better shows how stronger rules and regulations can improve the lives of retail workers and boost the quality of low-wage jobs across the board.
Careers for Women in Service and Retailing
Author: Nova Scotia. Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Careers for Women in Retailing
Author: Shirley B. GrossmanJobs and Careers for Women Leading to Management Jobs Retailing
Author: Institute for Research (Chicago, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Women, Careers and Retail Managment
Author: Adelina BroadbridgePublisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846547281
Category : Career development
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This book draws together research on retail management and women's careers. It reveals the factors that continue to be problematic for women's careers and why they continue to be under-represented in the retail management hierarchy. A contextual background is provided in the first five chapters which summarise some wider issues for the non specialist reader. Chapters 6-11 each adopts a different theoretical perspective and so cumulatively a comprehensive understanding of the reasons for women's continued under-representation in retail management positions is gained. The overall findings indicate that the main reasons for women's and men's differential experience in the retail management hierarchy can be located in issues of male control. Retail management is male dominated, male identified and male centred. This can present itself in a variety of different ways, and through overt or covert means of behaviour and underlying organisational cultures. Key theoretical contributions to the research are located in three sets of theory: the sexual division of labour and the organisation of retail work; the gendered retail career, and work-life balance and multiple role demands.
Positions of Responsibility in Department Stores and Other Retail Selling Organizations
Author: Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Department stores
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description