Amazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese

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Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese are the editors of The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy published by Pluto Press. Order a copy at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341484/the-cost-of-free-shipping/

With cutting-edge analysis, this book looks at the many facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggle, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more.

Mentioned in the talk is a panel event with the editors from November, when this episode was recorded, you've missed that discussion but you can watch the video of it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYeH0jLmHFM

Join the fight against Amazon by connecting with Amazonians United at www.amazoniansunited.org/ and read an interview with the workers at www.plutobooks.com/blog/amazon-man…through-stress/

Learn more about forms of solidarity work from this piece at Jacobin, Amazon Workers Desperately Need an Insurgent Union Campaign jacobinmag.com/2020/04/amazon-wo…union-coronavirus

Music: Fresh and Onlys- I'm a Thief

Class Power on Zero Hours w/ The Angry Workers

We spoke with members of the Angry Workers, a political collective, about the insights from their recent PM Press title, "Class Power on Zero Hours."

The Angry Workers spent the last six years working in a London backyard mostly among food and manufacturing workers, and they've chronicled their experiences as well as their efforts to organize alongside these workers in an expansive book. We speak about these experiences as well as the lessons learned on the ground, and the need to develop revolutionary forms of organization internationally.

You can contact the Angry Workers at angryworkersworld@gmail.com or on their Twitter @angryworkers or Facebook @angryworkersworld www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1164

Music on this episode is provided thanks to In The Red Records! Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin- Drop Dead Baby intheredrecords.com/collections/the…se-shark-attack

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A Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening Plan

We spoke with Amir Fleischmann of the Graduate Employee Organization, a union at the University of Michigan, about their latest strike leveraged to fight the university's reckless reopening plans amid a pandemic.

Amir provides a play-by-play of the strike, the events leading up to it and the larger context in which it occurred, and how their union was able to raise expectations and demonstrate the organic links between worker justice and social justice.

We discuss the demands of the strike, including demands to disarm and defund campus police, and take a look at the strike's mechanics and how workers were able to make their presence felt even during measures of social distancing as well as the power they were able to build among their own membership and in coalition with campus and community organizations.

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Damaged Bug- Transmute