The Warehouse
workers and robots at amazon
$64.19
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
The Warehouse: Inside Amazon’s Empire of Labor
‘Work hard, have fun, make history’ proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon’s warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance, aggressive anti-union tactics, and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early industrial capitalism, the hundreds of thousands of workers who help Amazon fulfill consumers’ desires are part of an experiment in changing the way we all work.
In this book, Alessan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745342177 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745342175 |
| Author: | Alessandro Delfanti |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 201g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 135mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
‘This accessible and richly detailed book brings together fascinating interviews with Italian Amazon workers, historical and economic analysis, and thoughtful critique’
– Lisa Nakamura, Lisa Nakamura, Director of the Digital Studies Institute and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan‘Delfanti has done here what more critics of Amazon should - listen carefully to the people whose work makes the corporation function. Those of us fighting for a better future than Amazon’s dystopia have much to learn from this book’
– Dania Rajendra, Inaugural Director, Athena Coalition‘Takes us to the heart of Amazon’s empire and masterfully unpacks the intensive labor, hyper-surveillance, and gamification of work that warehouse laborers experience each day’
– Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law‘Deftly examines the dichotomy between Amazon’s public personas and its union-busting, worker-surveilling behavior in fulfillment centers around the world’
– ‘Engadget’About The Author
Alessandro Delfanti
Alessandro Delfanti teaches Digital Media at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (Pluto, 2013).
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