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A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

AMAZONIFICATION: An interview with Alex Press

May 5, 2021
46:26

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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