Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters
Published online on May 27, 2026
Abstract
American Sociological Review, Volume 91, Issue 3, Page 435-463, June 2026.
Power is central to sociological accounts of economic inequality; however, buyer power—market conditions in which one or a few dominant employers can limit workers’ outside options for employment—has received little attention relative to worker power. We ...
Power is central to sociological accounts of economic inequality; however, buyer power—market conditions in which one or a few dominant employers can limit workers’ outside options for employment—has received little attention relative to worker power. We ...