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  • Formaat: Hardback, 320 pages, kõrgus x laius: 215x135 mm, kaal: 600 g, 7 Tables, black and white; 1 Figures
  • Sari: Wildcat
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2020
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745341470
  • ISBN-13: 9780745341477
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 320 pages, kõrgus x laius: 215x135 mm, kaal: 600 g, 7 Tables, black and white; 1 Figures
  • Sari: Wildcat
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2020
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745341470
  • ISBN-13: 9780745341477
Amazon's ubiquity is finally covered within one book – and in it lies the answers on how to take on this new, terrifying form of capitalism


Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in world history. Its dominance has reshaped consumer expectations and the global economy itself: we live in the age of 'Amazon Capitalism'.

'One-click' instant consumerism and the immense variety of available products have made Amazon a worldwide household name, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn, these subscribers are thoroughly surveilled by the corporation as they turn over their private information to Amazon's databases. Going beyond e-commerce, Amazon is also one of the largest logistics companies in the world, changing the way goods are manufactured and distributed, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. More recently, Amazon has also become the world's largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa.

With a wide variety of cutting-edge analyses, this book looks at the many dark facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggles, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more. The Cost of Free Shipping shows how Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global capitalism that we should name, interrogate and be primed to resist.

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'Drawing on deep and wide-ranging scholarship, this compelling collection provides heartening evidence of push-back by communities and organised labour against Amazon. Essential reading.' -- Kirsty Newsome, Professor of Employment Relations, Sheffield University A must-read for scholars and activists alike. This stellar collection of essays documents exploitation and resistance at Amazon across the globe. -- Carolina Bank Muñoz, Tow Professor of Sociology, City University of New York 'This important and timely book on Amazon's global empire is a must read for those who are concerned about economic inequality, massive public surveillance, and the threat to worker rights and democracy around the world' -- Kent Wong, Director, UCLA Labor Center 'This brilliant compilation of essays shows us how, like Walmart before it, Amazon has risen to global dominance through shrewd use of technology, data systems and supply chains, and also by skirting and breaking laws' -- Professor Stephanie Luce, School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY 'More than a book about Amazon. It is about the transition in global capitalism and its implications not only for Amazon's workforce, but on the global working class' -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., executive editor of globalafricanworker.com 'An excellent book it is clearly written and contains a stack of information about Amazons practices and the resistance they are generating' -- Socialist Book Reviews 'Those hoping to build more power for workers have much to learn from this books examination of organizing within Amazon' -- Labor Notes 'Offers important insights into Amazons insidious nature, the challenges of organizing, and also some glimmers of organizing success at the local and national levels' -- Jonathan Rosenblum, Jacobin 'Absolutely essential reading for every driver, warehouse associate, and tech worker at Amazon' -- Anonymous Amazon worker, Stansbury Forum

List of Figures and Tables
viii
Dedication ix
Acknowledgments x
Preface: Amazon and the Future of Work in the Global Economy xi
Ruth Milkman
Introduction: Amazon Capitalism 1(20)
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
Juliann Allison
Ellen Reese
PART I AMAZON's RISE IN GLOBAL POWER
1 Amazon: Context, Structure, and Vulnerability
21(14)
Kim Moody
2 Power Accrues to the Powerful: Amazon's Market Share, Customer Surveillance, and Internet Dominance
35(15)
Dana M. Williams
3 Transnational Amazon: Labor Exploitation and the Rise of E-Commerce in South Asia
50(19)
Jeb Sprague
Sreerekha Sathi
PART II EXPLOITATION AND RESISTANCE ACROSS AMAZON's GLOBAL EMPIRE
4 The Amazonification of Logistics: E-Commerce, Labor, and Exploitation in the Last Mile
69(16)
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
5 Automation and the Surveillance-Driven Warehouse in Inland Southern California
85(17)
Jason Struna
Ellen Reese
6 Gender, Race, and Amazon Warehouse Labor in the United States
102(14)
Ellen Reese
7 A New Industrial Working Class? Challenges in Disrupting Amazon's Fulfillment Process in Germany
116(13)
Nantina Vgontzas
8 A Struggle for Bodies and Souls: Amazon Management and Union Strategies in France and Italy
129(18)
Francesco Massimo
PART III COMMUNITIES CONFRONTING THE E-COMMERCE GIANT
9 Company Town: What Happens to a City and its Democracy when Amazon Dominates?
147(14)
Katie Wilson
10 Lessons from New York City's Struggle Against Amazon HQ2 in Long Island City
161(15)
Steve Lang
Filip Stabrowski
11 What Happens When Amazon Comes to Town? Environmental Impacts, Local Economies, and Resistance in Inland SouthernCalifornia
176(18)
Juliann Emmons Allison
12 Worker and Community Organizing to Challenge Amazon's Algorithmic Threat
194(15)
Sheheryar Kaoosji
PART IV STRUGGLING TO WIN AGAINST AMAZON
13 Amazon Strikes in Europe: Seven Years of Industrial Action, Challenges, and Strategies
209(16)
Jorn Boewe
Johannes Schulten
14 Bursting the Bubble: The Emerging Tech Worker Movement at Amazon
225(13)
Spencer Cox
15 The CEO Has No Clothes: Worker Leadership and Amazons Failures During COVID-19
238(12)
Dania Rajendra
16 Think Big: Organizing a Successful Amazon Workers' Movement in the United States by Combining the Strengths of the Left and Organized Labor
250(15)
Peter Olney
Rand Wilson
17 Amazonians United! An Interview with DCH1 (Chicago) Amazonians United
265(10)
DCH1 Amazonians United
Conclusion: Resisting Amazon Capitalism 275(10)
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
Ellen Reese
About the Authors 285(5)
Index 290
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books, 2016), and the editor of Choke Points (Pluto, 2018).