The Cost of Free Shipping

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**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021**

Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the age of 'Amazon Capitalism'.



'One-click' instant consumerism and its immense variety of products has made Amazon a worldwide household name, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn, these subscribers are surveilled by the corporation. Amazon is also one of the world's largest logistics companies, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. The company has also become the largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa.



With 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.

List of Figures and Tables

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface: Amazon and the Future of Work in the Global Economy - Ruth Milkman

Introduction: Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Juliann Allison, and Ellen Reese

PART I - AMAZON’S RISE IN GLOBAL POWER

1. Amazon: Context, Structure, and Vulnerability - Kim Moody

2. Power Accrues to the Powerful: Amazon’s Market Share, Customer Surveillance, and Internet Dominance - Dana M. Williams

3. Transnational Amazon: Labor Exploitation and the Rise of E-Commerce in South Asia - Jeb Sprague and 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 - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson

5. Automation and the Surveillance-Driven Warehouse in Inland Southern California - Jason Struna and Ellen Reese

6. Gender, Race, and Amazon Warehouse Labor in the United States - Ellen Reese

7. A New Industrial Working Class? Challenges in Disrupting Amazon’s Fulfillment Process in Germany - Nantina Vgontzas

8. A Struggle for Bodies and Souls: Amazon Management and Union Strategies in France and Italy - Francesco Massimo

PART III - COMMUNITIES CONFRONTING THE E-COMMERCE GIANT

9. Company Town: What Happens to a City and its Democracy when Amazon Dominates? - Katie Wilson

10. Lessons from New York City’s Struggle Against Amazon HQ2 in Long Island City - Steve Lang and Filip Stabrowski

11. What Happens When Amazon Comes to Town? Environmental Impacts, Local Economies, and Resistance in Inland Southern California - Juliann Emmons Allison

12. Worker and Community Organizing to Challenge Amazon’s Algorithmic Threat - Sheheryar Kaoosji

PART IV - STRUGGLING TO WIN AGAINST AMAZON

13. Amazon Strikes in Europe: Seven Years of Industrial Action, Challenges, and Strategies - Jörn Boewe and Johannes Schulten

14. Bursting the Bubble: The Emerging Tech Worker Movement at Amazon - Spencer Cox

15. The CEO Has No Clothes: Worker Leadership and Amazon’s Failures During COVID-19 - 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 - Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

17. Amazonians United! An Interview with DCH1 (Chicago) Amazonians United - DCH1 Amazonians United

Conclusion: Resisting Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese

About the Authors

Index

Sujets

• Vente
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• E-Commerce
• Movimiento sindical
• Sociology
• Hex Hector
• General officer
• Trade union
• Electronic commerce
• Economics
• Capitalism
• Business
• General
• Surveillance
• Alexa
• Jeff Bezos
• Labor
• Amazon
• Commerce électronique
• E-commerce
• E-Commerce
• E-Commerce
• E-commerce
• E-Commerce

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786807519
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Serîes Edîtors: ïàûé Néŝŝ (Cî Uîéŝî ô Né Yô) Màéôô ŝôàéî (Uîéŝî ô Jôàéŝû) Péé Côé (Wéŝé ïîôîŝ Uîéŝî) Ràûé Vàéà (ïŝîûô é îŝóîà Côéôâéà (ïC) ô Uîéŝîàé Nôà é Lîŝôà, Lîŝô Né Uîéŝî) Kàé Aéàé (Uîéŝî ô Jôàéŝû) î Pîé (SOAS, Uîéŝî ô Lôô)

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ïôûçîô: Aàô Càîàîŝ Jake Alîmaomed-Wîlson, Julîann Allîson, and Ellen Reese

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AMAZON’S RïSE ïN GLOBAL POWER

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PAR ïï EXPLOïAïON AND RESïSANCE ACROSS AMAZON’S GLOBAL EMPïRE

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16 î Bî: Oàîî à Sûççéŝŝû Aàô Wôéŝ’ Môéé î é Uîé Sàéŝ  Côîî é Séŝ ô é Lé à Oàîé Làô 250  Peter Olney and Rand Wîlson 17 Aàôîàŝ Uîé A ïéîé î DC1 (Cîçàô) Aàôîàŝ Uîé 265  DCH1 Amazonians United

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