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**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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
**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.
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. Â
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. Â
"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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