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Organizing Amazon - Tom Vickers

Organizing Amazon

Building Worker Power Under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529254297 (ISBN)
CHF 26,15 inkl. MwSt
Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon’s BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition.


Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union’s successes and setbacks. It provides a practical organizing model applicable beyond Amazon, offering strategies to engage the workforce, sustain support and develop leadership. An essential toolkit for those navigating the complexities of evolving labour practices, with particular relevance for precarious workers and workplaces where access is limited.

Tom Vickers is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the GMB-NTU Work Futures Research Observatory at Nottingham Trent University. He has been engaged with movements resisting capitalism exploitation and oppression for more than two decades.

1. Introduction


Essay 1: What We Have Achieved Is Not a List of Accomplishments, It’s a Transformation - Ceferina Floresca Javier





2. Introducing the GMB Union


Essay 2: Managing an Organising Team in the Amazon Campaign - Amanda Gearing





3. Reaching the Whole Workforce


Essay 3: How Amazon Tried To Persuade Workers Against the Union - Louveza Iqbal


Essay 4: Stopping, Watching and Listening: The Importance of Mindfulness for Organising - Rachel Fagan





4. Sustaining Action and Engagement


Essay 5: Reflections on the Fight for Statutory Union Recognition at BHX4 - Stuart Richards





5. Developing Leadership


Essay 6: Representing Members Inside Amazon - Paramanathan Pradeep


Essay 7: Agitate, Educate, Organise! How We Trained and Developed Workplace Leaders - Tom Rigby





6. Responding to Workers’ Needs and Concerns


Essay 8: Applying Personal Experience and Community Work in Organising at Amazon - Ferdousara Uddin





7. Building Wider Support


Essay 9: Why We Need an International Alliance Against Amazon - Garfield Hylton





8. Principles of the Coventry Model





9. Conclusion





Appendix 1. Case Study Questions for Teaching


Appendix 2. Methodology: An Activist Ethnography


Appendix 3. Coding Framework

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Not illustrated
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Arbeits- / Sozialrecht Arbeitsrecht
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-13 9781529254297 / 9781529254297
Zustand Neuware
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