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The rise of the network: the case of our Walmart
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Despite the fact that private-sector unionisation in the United States has reached a historic low, 2012 saw Walmart's first ever nationwide strike. This strike was not carried out by a union and the aim was not collective bargaining. Strikes and other collective acts sought to leverage ideological power, in order to cause symbolic, rather than economic damage. Mass self-communication networks, such as Facebook, connected geographically dispersed actions, transforming them into interconnected ...
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- Publication status:
- Accepted
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Publisher's website
- Host title:
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference 2014
- Journal:
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference 2014
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-25
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Wood, A
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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This is the
accepted manuscript of a conference presentation given at The Annual Conference
of The British Universities Industrial Relations Association on 2014-06-25
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