Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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The Four Relationships of Alienation in the Warehouse
The Amazon warehouse is like a factory brought into the 21st century. Instead of producing an item, more circulating items are produced and sent out to customers. The division of labor becomes managed both socially as well as technologically. And then finally, Amazon has also constructed, as we've seen with a lot of platforms, specific work cultures for its workers.
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