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‘Drawing on deep and wide-ranging scholarship, this compelling collection provides heartening evidence of push-back by communities and organised labour against Amazon. Essential reading.’

A must-read for scholars and activists alike. This stellar collection of essays documents exploitation and resistance at Amazon across the globe.

‘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’

‘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’

‘An excellent book … it is clearly written and contains a stack of information about Amazon’s practices and the resistance they are generating’

‘Those hoping to build more power for workers have much to learn from this book’s examination of organizing within Amazon’

‘Offers important insights into Amazon’s insidious nature, the challenges of organizing, and also some glimmers of organizing success at the local and national levels’

‘Absolutely essential reading for every driver, warehouse associate, and tech worker at Amazon’

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).