Cost of Free Shipping (eBook)

Amazon in the Global Economy

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-752-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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

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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.

Autoren

lt;p>Ellen Reese is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of They Sat Cutback, We Say Fightback! and co-editor of Wages of Empire.

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).

Inhalt

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, Long Beach), Juliann Allison (University of California, Riverside), and Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside)

Part I: Amazon's Rise in Global Power

1. Amazon in Context - Kim Moody (University of Westminster)

2. Power Accrues to the Powerful: Amazon's Marketshare, Customer Surveillance, and Internet Dominance - Dana M. Williams (California State University, Chico)

3. Transnational Amazon: Labor Exploitation and the Rise of E-Commerce in South Asia - Jeb Sprague (University of California, Riverside) and Sreerekha Sathi (International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands)

Part II: Exploitation and Resistance Across Amazon's Global Empire

4. The Amazonification of Logistics: E-Commerce and the Struggle for the Last-Mile - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (California State University, Long Beach)

5. Automation and the Surveillance-Driven Warehouse - Jason Struna (University of Puget Sound) and Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside)

6. Gender, Race, and Warehouse Labor in the United States - Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside)

7. A New Industrial Working Class? Challenges in Disrupting Amazon’s Fulfilment Process in Germany - Nantina Vgontzas (New York University)

8. 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

9. Company Town: What Happens to a City and its Democracy When Amazon Dominates? - Katie Wilson (General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union)

10. 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)

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

12. Worker and Community Organizing to Challenge Amazon's Algorithmic Test - Sheheryar Kaoosji (Warehouse Worker Resource Center)

Part IV: Struggling to Win Against Amazon

13. Amazon Strikes in Germany and Europe: Seven years of Industrial Action, Challenges, and Strategies - Jorn Boewe and Johannes Schulten (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)

14. Bursting the Bubble: Emerging Tech Worker Movement at Amazon - Spencer Cox (University of Minnesota)

15. The CEO Has No Clothes: Worker Leadership and Amazon’s Failures During COVID-19 - Dania Rajendra (Athena)

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 (SEIU Local 888, Boston)

17. 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)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Wildcat
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b&w figure; 7 b&w tables
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Air Pollution • Alexa • amazon • amazon and capitalism • Amazonians United • amazon unbound • amazon union • Amazon workers • Automation • best books about amazon • big box retail • Big Data • billionaires • Black Friday protests • blue green alliance • books • books about amazon • books about jeff bezos • books on big business • brick and mortar shops • Capitalism • Carbon neutrality • Cloud Storage • Community • community benefits agreement • Consumerism • coronavirus capitalism • corporate dominance • Corporate Tax Evasion • corporate tax incentives • Corporate Welfare • Covid-19 • customer surveillance • Cyber Monday protests • delivery drivers • ecological footprint • E-Commerce • environmental justice • everything store • Gig economy • Global Economy • Globalization • high tech workers • HQ2 • Jeff Bezos • Labour • Local democracy • logistics • modern capitalism • Monopoly • Monopoly Capitalism • Neoliberalism • one click consumerism • Race • Racism • retail economy • Socialism • Social Movements • Strikes • Surveillance • surveillance capitalism • tech companies • the future of work • transnational social strike • union-busting • unionization • Unionized labor • Unions • Urban • wareh • Warehouse • warehouse workers • Wealth Inequality • Whole Foods • Work • Workers
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-752-1 / 1786807521
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-752-6 / 9781786807526