Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation Reese Ellen
Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation Reese Ellen From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history.…
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Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation Reese Ellen
From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon is only made possible by the exploitation of workers' labor and communities' resources. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the company built a vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers and warehouses.
Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to the warehouse industry by workers and Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repercussions of these pernicious strategies through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing in Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer.