AMAZONIFICATION: An interview with Alex Press

05/05/2021 46 min Temporada 2 Episodio 17
AMAZONIFICATION: An interview with Alex Press

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Episode Synopsis

Grace talks to Alex Press, staff writer at Jacobin, about Amazon’s ruthless exploitation of its workforce, its deeply embedded culture of union busting, and its avoidance of basic labour regulation in its mission to become the "everything store" — as well as how workers are coming together to resist the company.
Check out some of Alex's recent articles at Jacobin about unions and Amazon:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/joe-biden-100-days-labor-movement-unions-pro-act
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/amazon-jeff-bezos-union-busting-workers-organize
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/amazon-warehouses-fulfillment-centers-unionize-vote-rwdsu
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