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Amazon in the Global Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

'Amazon Capitalism' grows ever stronger. This book provides the answers on how to fight the company's terrifying omnipotence.

Produktdetails

• Wildcat
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780745341484
• ISBN-10: 0745341489
• Artikelnr.: 59542616

Autorenporträt

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). Ellen Reese is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Labour Studies program at UC Riverside. She is co-editor of The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty (2007, Paradigm Publishers) and co-author of The World Social Forums and the Challenges of Global Democracy, 2nd Edition (2014, Paradigm Publishers).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Amazon and the Future of Work in the Global Economy - Ruth Milkman
(Graduate Center, CUNY)
Introduction: Interrogating Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
(California State University), Juliann Allison (University of California,
Riverside), and Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside)
Part I: Amazon's Rise in Global Power
Amazon in Context - Kim Moody (University of Westminster)
Power Accrues to the Powerful: Amazon's Marketshare, Customer Surveillance,
and Internet Dominance - Dana M. Williams (California State University)
Transnational Amazon: Labour Exploitation and the Rise of E-Commerce in
South Asia - Jeb Sprague (University of California, Riverside) and
Sreerekha Sathi (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Part II: Exploitation and Resistance Across Amazon's Global Empire
The Amazonification of Logistics: E-Commerce and the Struggle for the
Last-Mile - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (California State University)
Automation and the Surveillance-Driven Warehouse - Jason Struna (University
of Puget Sound), Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside), and
John Aldecoa (University of California, Riverside)
Gender, Race, and Warehouse Labor in the United States - Ellen Reese
(University of California, Riverside)
A New Industrial Working Class? Challenges in Disrupting Amazon's
Fulfilment Process in Germany - Nantina Vgontza (New York University)
A Struggle for Bodies and Souls: Amazon Management and Union Strategies in
France and Italy - Francesco Massimo (Sciences Po Paris)
Part III: Communities Confronting the E-Commerce Giant
Company Town: What Happens to a City and its Democracy When Amazon
Dominates? - Katie Wilson (General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union)
Lessons from New York City's Struggle Against Amazon HQ2 in Long Island
City - Steve Lang (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) and Filip Stabrowski
(LaGuardia Community College, CUNY)
What Happens When Amazon Comes to Town? Environmental Impacts, Local
Economies and Resistance in Inland Southern California - Juliann Emmons
Allison (University of California, Riverside)
Worker and Community Organizing to Challenge Amazon's Algorithmic Test -
Sheheryar Kaoosji (Warehouse Worker Resource Center)
Part IV: Struggling to Win Against Amazon
Amazon Strikes in Germany and Europe: Seven years of Industrial Action,
Challenges, and Strategies - Jorn Boewe and Johannes Schulten
(Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)
Bursting the Bubble: Emerging Tech Worker Movement at Amazon - Spencer Cox
(University of Minnesota)
The CEO Has No Clothes: Worker Leadership and Amazon's Failures During
COVID-19 - Dania Rajendra
Think Big: Organising a Successful Amazon Workers' Movement in the United
States by Combining the Strengths of the Left and Organised Labour - Peter
Olney and Rand Wilson (SEIU Local 888, Boston)
Amazonians United! - An Interview with DCH1 (Chicago) Amazonians United
Conclusion: Resisting Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
(California State University) and Ellen Reese (University of California,
Riverside)