LEADER 04882nam 2201033Ia 450 001 9910789000403321 005 20210622031914.0 010 $a1-282-77203-1 010 $a9786612772030 010 $a0-520-93949-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939493 035 $a(CKB)3390000000006978 035 $a(EBL)922885 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438192 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11317092 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438192 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449046 035 $a(PQKB)11072906 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC922885 035 $a(DE-B1597)518815 035 $a(OCoLC)816496614 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939493 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL922885 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675830 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277203 035 $a(OCoLC)794663660 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000006978 100 $a20061011d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInside toyland$b[electronic resource] $eworking, shopping, and social inequality /$fChristine L. Williams 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-24716-7 311 0 $a0-520-24717-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$t1. A SOCIOLOGIST INSIDE TOY STORES --$t2. HISTORY OF TOY SHOPPING IN AMERICA --$t3. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TOY STORES --$t4. INEQUALITY ON THE SHOPPING FLOOR --$t5. KIDS IN TOYLAND --$t6. TOYS AND CITIZENSHIP --$tNOTES --$tREFERENCES --$tINDEX 330 $a"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 lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture. Despite their differences, Williams finds that both toy stores perpetuate social inequality in a variety of ways. She observes that workers are often assigned to different tasks and functions on the basis of gender and race; that racial dynamics between black staff and white customers can play out in complex and intense ways; that unions can't protect workers from harassment from supervisors or demeaning customers even in the upscale toy store. And she discovers how lessons that adults teach to children about shopping can legitimize economic and social hierarchies. In the end, however, Inside Toyland is not an anti-consumer diatribe. Williams discusses specific changes in labor law and in the organization of the retail industry that can better promote social justice. 606 $aToy industry$zUnited States$xEmployees 606 $aClerks (Retail trade)$zUnited States 606 $aDiscrimination in employment$zUnited States 606 $aConsumers$zUnited States 606 $aEquality$zUnited States 610 $aamerican economics. 610 $abehavioral studies. 610 $abox outlet stores. 610 $aclass issues. 610 $aconsumer behavior. 610 $aconsumer culture. 610 $agender issues. 610 $alabor laws. 610 $alow wage jobs. 610 $anational chain stores. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $arace issues. 610 $aracial dynamics. 610 $aretail industry. 610 $aretail work. 610 $ashopping mall culture. 610 $ashopping politics. 610 $asocial hierarchies. 610 $asocial impacts. 610 $asocial inequality. 610 $asocial justice. 610 $asocial sciences. 610 $asociologists. 610 $asociology. 610 $atoy shopping. 610 $atoy stores. 610 $aunion members. 610 $aupscale shops. 615 0$aToy industry$xEmployees. 615 0$aClerks (Retail trade) 615 0$aDiscrimination in employment 615 0$aConsumers 615 0$aEquality 676 $a381/.4568872/0973 700 $aWilliams$b Christine L.$f1959-$01085469 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789000403321 996 $aInside toyland$93783420 997 $aUNINA