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The Cost of Free Shipping - Amazon in the Global Economy (Hardcover): Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese The Cost of Free Shipping - Amazon in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese
R2,105 Discovery Miles 21 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021** Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the age of 'Amazon Capitalism'. 'One-click' instant consumerism and its immense variety of products has made Amazon a worldwide household name, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn, these subscribers are surveilled by the corporation. Amazon is also one of the world's largest logistics companies, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. The company has also become the largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa. With cutting-edge analyses, this book looks at the many dark facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggles, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more. The Cost of Free Shipping shows how Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global capitalism that we should name, interrogate and be primed to resist.

Handbook on World Social Forum Activism (Paperback): Jackie Smith, Ellen Reese, Scott Byrd, Elizabeth Smythe Handbook on World Social Forum Activism (Paperback)
Jackie Smith, Ellen Reese, Scott Byrd, Elizabeth Smythe
R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The World Social Forum (WSF) has become the focus for a diverse array of movements advancing alternative visions of globalisation. The numerous WSF's have helped to connect activists in an increasingly dense network of advocates for radical social change. They have mobilised hundreds of thousands of people and may be one of the most important political developments of our time. The Handbook of World Social Forum Activism brings together leading scholars of the social forum process from North America and Europe. The collection contributes to the ongoing process of reflection from the WSF experience, and is accessible to activists, students and scholars alike.

Handbook on World Social Forum Activism (Hardcover, New): Jackie Smith, Ellen Reese, Scott Byrd, Elizabeth Smythe Handbook on World Social Forum Activism (Hardcover, New)
Jackie Smith, Ellen Reese, Scott Byrd, Elizabeth Smythe
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The World Social Forums began in 2001 as a civil society countersummit to the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of global corporate and political elite that shapes global economic policies. Since then the World Social Forums have become the premier focal point for a diverse array of movements and associations advancing alternative visions of globalization. The World Social Forum "process" encompasses a variety of meetings and networking activities taking place around the world at local, national, regional, and global levels. United by a belief that Another world is possible, World Social Forum activists are engaging in a massive global experiment to bring about a more democratic and just world. Social Forums held at multiple levels from local to global help connect activists in an increasingly dense network of advocates for radical social change. They have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people and may be one of the most important political developments of our time. The Forums overlapping networks link conversations across vast distances as well as over time, allowing unprecedented learning and sharing across movements and across continents. "Handbook of World Social Forum Activism" brings together some of the leading scholars of the WSF process from North America and Europe to offer comparative and longitudinal analyses of the World Social Forum process. Succinct chapters offer lessons and insights on this important global movement drawing from a variety of innovative research methods. The collection documents and contributes to the ongoing process of reflection and learning from World Social Forum experiences and is accessible to activists, students, and scholars alike."

Wages of Empire - Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty (Paperback): Amalia L. Cabezas, Ellen Reese,... Wages of Empire - Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty (Paperback)
Amalia L. Cabezas, Ellen Reese, Marguerite Waller
R1,585 Discovery Miles 15 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. "The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Armed Repression, and Women 's Poverty" investigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and rural women, rightward shifts in public policies, and women 's resistance to these developments.

Wages of Empire - Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty (Hardcover): Amalia L. Cabezas, Ellen Reese,... Wages of Empire - Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty (Hardcover)
Amalia L. Cabezas, Ellen Reese, Marguerite Waller
R6,378 Discovery Miles 63 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. "The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Armed Repression, and Women 's Poverty" investigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and rural women, rightward shifts in public policies, and women 's resistance to these developments.

The Cost of Free Shipping - Amazon in the Global Economy (Paperback): Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese The Cost of Free Shipping - Amazon in the Global Economy (Paperback)
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021** Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the age of 'Amazon Capitalism'. 'One-click' instant consumerism and its immense variety of products has made Amazon a worldwide household name, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn, these subscribers are surveilled by the corporation. Amazon is also one of the world's largest logistics companies, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. The company has also become the largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa. With cutting-edge analyses, this book looks at the many dark facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggles, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more. The Cost of Free Shipping shows how Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global capitalism that we should name, interrogate and be primed to resist.

Unsustainable - Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation: Ellen Reese, Juliann Emmons Allison Unsustainable - Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation
Ellen Reese, Juliann Emmons Allison
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the company built a vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers and warehouses. 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. 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. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to 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.  

Unsustainable - Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation: Ellen Reese, Juliann Emmons Allison Unsustainable - Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation
Ellen Reese, Juliann Emmons Allison
R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the company built a vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers and warehouses. 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. 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. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to 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.  

Backlash against Welfare Mothers - Past and Present (Paperback, Annotated Ed): Ellen Reese Backlash against Welfare Mothers - Past and Present (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Ellen Reese
R1,155 Discovery Miles 11 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Backlash against Welfare Mothers "is a forceful examination of how and why a state-level revolt against welfare, begun in the late 1940s, was transformed into a national-level assault that destroyed a critical part of the nation's safety net, with tragic consequences for American society. With a wealth of original research, Ellen Reese puts recent debates about the contemporary welfare backlash into historical perspective. She provides a closer look at these early antiwelfare campaigns, showing why they were more successful in some states than others and how opponents of welfare sometimes targeted Puerto Ricans and Chicanos as well as blacks for cutbacks. Her research reveals both the continuities and changes in American welfare opposition from the late 1940s to the present. Reese brings new evidence to light that reveals how large farmers and racist politicians, concerned about the supply of cheap labor, appealed to white voters' racial resentments and stereotypes about unwed mothers, blacks, and immigrants in the 1950s. She then examines congressional failure to replace the current welfare system with a more popular alternative in the 1960s and 1970s, which paved the way for national assaults on welfare. Taking a fresh look at recent debates on welfare reform, she explores how and why politicians competing for the white vote and right-wing think tanks promoting business interests appeased the Christian right and manufactured consent for cutbacks through a powerful, racially coded discourse. Finally, through firsthand testimonies, Reese vividly portrays the tragic consequences of current welfare policies and calls for a bold new agenda for working families.

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