Unpacking Global Amazon

Labor, Work, and Communityin E-Commerce Warehousing and Distribution
Positioning Amazon as a key actor reshaping business and labor paradigms in the digitized global economy, this book examines its relationship with labor markets and institutions worldwide. Tracing the companys expansion over three-plus decades and controversies, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, based on fresh fieldwork, expert contributors demonstrate how Amazon shapes, and is re-shaped by, its various locations through regulation, conflict, and competition.

Leading scholars examine the complex interplay of Amazons encounters with markets, institutions, and actors in national and subnational settings. They analyze the consequences of fast-paced, low-skilled labor mandates against the backdrop of fierce resistance from union and civil society campaigners and local competitors. Chapters contribute to key debates, evaluating Amazons history of anti-union b