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"Like almost all studies that have appeared since scholars realized--about twenty years ago--that law clerks play important roles in judicial decision-making, those collections focused on the Supreme Court. Given the importance of the Court and of its clerkships as stepping stones to greater things, this is not surprising. But federal courts, and cases, are far more numerous. In this final volume of his trilogy focusing on clerks, Peppers shows that the distinctive doings of lower court clerks are at least as important, and interesting, as those of their Supreme Court counterparts. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, among others, contributes"--

Clerks of court --- Law clerks --- Judicial process

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"In the 1930s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious teenager thought it worth recording. Aileen Kilgore Henderson kept a chronicle of her family's daily struggles in Tuscaloosa County alongside events in the wider world she gleaned from shortwave radio and the occasional newspaper. She wrote about Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight, her dreams of sitting on the patio of Shepheard's Hotel to watch Lawrence of Arabia ride in from the desert, and her horror at the rise to power in Germany of a bizarre politician named Adolf Hitler. Henderson longed to join the vast world beyond the farm, but feared leaving the refuge of her family and beloved animals. Yet, with her father's encouragement, she did leave, becoming a clerk in the Kress dime store in downtown Tuscaloosa. Despite long workdays and a lengthy bus commute, she continued to record her observations and experiences in her diary, for every day at the dime store was interesting and exciting for an observant young woman who found herself considering new ideas and different points of view. Drawing on her diary entries from the 1930s and early 1940s, Henderson recollects a time of sweeping change for Tuscaloosa and the South. The World through the Dime Store Door is a personal and engaging account of a Southern town and its environs in transition told through the eyes of a poor young woman with only a high school education but gifted with a lively mind and an openness to life."--

Clerks (Retail trade) --- Young women --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- Henderson, Aileen Kilgore, --- Childhood and youth. --- Tuscaloosa (Ala.) --- United States --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Women --- Young adults --- Girls --- Clerks (Salesmen) --- Retail clerks --- Sales clerks --- Stores, Retail --- Clerks --- Retail trade --- Sales personnel --- Employees --- Henderson, Aileen, --- Kilgore, Aileen, --- University (Ala.) --- Tuskaloosa (Ala.)

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The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”

Clerks --- Capitalism --- History --- Social aspects --- accounting. --- capitalism. --- individualism. --- knowledge. --- market economy. --- masculinity. --- nervous disorders. --- office work. --- paperwork. --- statistics.

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"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.

Clerks (Retail trade) --- Consumers --- Discrimination in employment --- Equality --- Toy industry --- Employees. --- Jouets --- Commis vendeurs (Commerce de détail) --- Discrimination dans l'emploi --- Consommateurs --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Industrie --- Personnel --- Clerks (Salesmen) --- Retail clerks --- Sales clerks --- Stores, Retail --- Clerks --- Retail trade --- Sales personnel --- Leisure industry --- Employees --- E-books --- american economics. --- behavioral studies. --- box outlet stores. --- class issues. --- consumer behavior. --- consumer culture. --- gender issues. --- labor laws. --- low wage jobs. --- national chain stores. --- nonfiction. --- race issues. --- racial dynamics. --- retail industry. --- retail work. --- shopping mall culture. --- shopping politics. --- social hierarchies. --- social impacts. --- social inequality. --- social justice. --- social sciences. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- toy shopping. --- toy stores. --- union members. --- upscale shops.

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Women --- Clerks --- Employment --- History. --- Clerical employees --- Clerical personnel --- Commercial employees --- Employees, Clerical --- Office employees --- Office workers --- White collar workers --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity