Wildcat #: The Cost of Free Shipping

Amazon in the Global Economy

Wildcat #: The Cost of Free Shipping
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese
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20 Sep 2020 UK
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9780745341484
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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.

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' 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. We all need to learn as much as we can about this behemoth, and ' The Cost of Free Shipping' is the place to start. The book will take you from despair at the scope of Amazon' s operations and its impact on everything from the environment to privacy to the future of work, then somehow leave with you hope, inspired by the way in which Amazon' s global reach might also lead to its undoing, as it unites resistance in the trenches from Chicago to Milan to New Delhi. ' -- Professor Stephanie Luce, School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY ' ' The Cost of Free Shipping' is 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. But this is also a book about resistance in the context of the ' new Gilded Age' . This book takes a ' 360' view of a company and an industry in order for the reader to answer the question: ' what is to be done? ' ' -- Bill Fletcher, Jr. , executive editor of globalafricanworker. com
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).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780745341484
Published: 20 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 215mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 320

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