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Unpacking Global Amazon : Labor, Work, and Community in e-Commerce Warehousing and Distribution
Unpacking Global Amazon : Labor, Work, and Community in e-Commerce Warehousing and Distribution
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ISBN No.: 9781035380442
Pages: 416
Year: 202608
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 257.08
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Positioning Amazon as a key actor reshaping business and labor paradigms in the digitized global economy, this book examines its relationship with labor markets and institutions worldwide. Tracing the company's expansion over three-plus decades and controversies particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic based on fresh fieldwork, expert contributors demonstrate how Amazon shapes, and is re-shaped by, its various locations through regulation, conflict, and competition. Leading scholars examine the complex interplay of Amazon's encounters with markets, institutions, and actors in national and subnational settings. They analyze the consequences of fast-paced, low-skilled labor mandates against the backdrop of fierce resistance from union and civil society campaigners and local competitors. Chapters contribute to key debates, evaluating Amazon's history of anti-union behavior and increasingly algorithmically driven management. Drawing on empirical research, the book assesses union and community efforts and regulatory initiatives that seek to contest and contain the social impacts of a warehousing and delivery system built on speed, worker exploitation, and refashioning economic geographies around immediate one-click consumerism. An essential resource for understanding the global infrastructure of increasingly digitized multinational tech corporations, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of business management, economics, political economy, human rights, and labour policy. E-commerce and NGO professionals, as well as policymakers, will similarly benefit from its timely and practical discussion of advocacy approaches and policy controversies.



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