Ellen Reese is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of They Sat Cutback, We Say Fightback! and co-editor of Wages of Empire.

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Acknowledgments

Preface: Amazon and the Future of Work in the Global Economy - Ruth Milkman

Introduction: Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Juliann Allison, and Ellen Reese

PART I - AMAZON'S RISE IN GLOBAL POWER

1. Amazon: Context, Structure, and Vulnerability - Kim Moody

2. Power Accrues to the Powerful: Amazon's Market Share, Customer Surveillance, and Internet Dominance - Dana M. Williams

3. Transnational Amazon: Labor Exploitation and the Rise of E-Commerce in South Asia - Jeb Sprague and Sreerekha Sathi

PART II - EXPLOITATION AND RESISTANCE ACROSS AMAZON'S GLOBAL EMPIRE

4. The Amazonification of Logistics: E-Commerce, Labor, and Exploitation in the Last Mile - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson

5. Automation and the Surveillance-Driven Warehouse in Inland Southern California - Jason Struna and Ellen Reese

6. Gender, Race, and Amazon Warehouse Labor in the United States - Ellen Reese

7. A New Industrial Working Class? Challenges in Disrupting Amazon's Fulfillment Process in Germany - Nantina Vgontzas

8. A Struggle for Bodies and Souls: Amazon Management and Union Strategies in France and Italy - Francesco Massimo

PART III - COMMUNITIES CONFRONTING THE E-COMMERCE GIANT

9. Company Town: What Happens to a City and its Democracy when Amazon Dominates? - Katie Wilson

10. Lessons from New York City's Struggle Against Amazon HQ2 in Long Island City - Steve Lang and Filip Stabrowski

11. What Happens When Amazon Comes to Town? Environmental Impacts, Local Economies, and Resistance in Inland Southern California - Juliann Emmons Allison

12. Worker and Community Organizing to Challenge Amazon's Algorithmic Threat - Sheheryar Kaoosji

PART IV - STRUGGLING TO WIN AGAINST AMAZON

13. Amazon Strikes in Europe: Seven Years of Industrial Action, Challenges, and Strategies - Jörn Boewe and Johannes Schulten

14. Bursting the Bubble: The Emerging Tech Worker Movement at Amazon - Spencer Cox

15. The CEO Has No Clothes: Worker Leadership and Amazon's Failures During COVID-19 - Dania Rajendra

16. Think Big: Organizing a Successful Amazon Workers' Movement in the United States by Combining the Strengths of the Left and Organized Labor - Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

17. Amazonians United! An Interview with DCH1 (Chicago) Amazonians United - DCH1 Amazonians United

Conclusion: Resisting Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese

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