Screen LibraryUnsustainable : Amazon, warehousing, and the politics of exploitation /
"From famously humble origins in founder Jeff Bezos's garage, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history, able to deliver virtually anything to virtually anywhere thanks to its vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers. Unsustainable looks inside the co...
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oakland, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"From famously humble origins in founder Jeff Bezos's garage, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history, able to deliver virtually anything to virtually anywhere thanks to its vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon, and warehousing more generally, is made possible by the exploitation of workers' labor and communities' resources, including the natural environment. Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repurcussions of these pernicious practices through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing within Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to Amazon and the warehouse industry by workers and communities across this region, the country, and the globe, Unsustainable provides fresh insight into one of the most important and far-reaching struggles of our time"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps, forms ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-330) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520388383 0520388380 |
| Index Number: | HF5488 |
| CLC: | F249.712.1 |
| Call Number: | F249.712.1/A438 |
| Contents: | Opening the box : Amazon's impact on warehousing, workers, and communities -- Boxing in our community : Amazon expands Inland Southern California's warehouse empire -- Behind the box : exploitative conditions in Amazon's warehouses -- Boxed in : discipline, control, and mechanisms of exploitation in Amazon warehouses -- Moving boxes together : inequalities and social relations among warehouse workers -- Boxed and bruised : Warehouse workers' injuries and illnesses -- Boxing lessons : community resistance to Amazon and warehousing in Inland Southern California -- Beyond the box : confronting Amazon and the politics of exploitation and inequality -- Methodological appendix : Amazon warehouse worker interviews. |