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- ISBN
- 9780745341484
- Book Title
- Cost of Free Shipping : Amazon in the Global Economy
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topic
- Distribution, Commerce, Free Enterprise
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Winner of the United Association for Labor Education Book Award 2021, this is essential reading for everyone who wants to understand the role of Amazon in our economy and society. With Amazon, supply-chain, and unionization in the news, it is both timely and incredibly informative. Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become one of the richest individuals 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pluto Press
ISBN-10
0745341489
ISBN-13
9780745341484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3050082936
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cost of Free Shipping : Amazon in the Global Economy
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Language
English
Topic
Distribution, Commerce, Free Enterprise
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Hf5548.32.C6766 2020
Reviews
'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', '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.', 'A must-read for scholars and activists alike. This stellar collection of essays documents exploitation and resistance at Amazon across the globe', ''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?'', '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', ''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, taking a '360' view of a company and an industry in order for the reader to answer the question: 'what is to be done?'', '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.'
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2023-301323
Dewey Decimal
381/.45002065
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Wildcat Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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