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Book SynopsisPreface: On Being Working Class in Graduate School.- Introduction: On Retail Disobedience and Working-class Agency.- Part I: Retail Work as a Constrained Decision.- Chapter 1: The Closed Factory, the Cop Car, and the Hiring Poster.- Chapter 2: Last or Only Choice Retail Work.- Chapter 3: Retail Work in a Bleak Economic Landscape.- Part II: Worker Agency in the Superstore Workplace.- Chapter 4: Surveillance Power and Infrapolitics.- Chapter 5: Worker Shrink, New Labor History, and Worker Agency.- Chapter 6: The Moral Economy of Critical Retail Workers.- Chapter 7: Foot-dragging Narratives.- Chapter 8: Theft Narratives and the Sabotage Tradition.- Part III: Deserting the Superstore.- Chapter 9: Turnover, Exit as Voice, and Quitting Narratives.- Chapter 10: Post-retail Narratives of Care, Morality, Corporate Opposition.- Chapter 11: Disobedience and Desertion on Social Media.- Conclusion: Democracy, Climate Collapse, and the Destitution of the Superstore.- Index.
