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Seasonal Associate (Paperback)
Heike Geissler; Afterword by Kevin Vennemann; Translated by Katy Derbyshire
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How the brutalities of working life are transformed into
exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her
experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center. No longer able
to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating
income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at
Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a
stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and
Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the
post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at
Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition,
Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary
account of corporate flex-time employment that offers "freedom" to
workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between
the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced
expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition
with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century
account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into
exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.
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