Amazon Will Be This Century’s Biggest Labor Battle
With its vast logistics empire deploying robotics, surveillance, and AI to block worker power at every turn, Amazon now sits atop the throne of American capitalism. Organizing it will define the future of the labor movement.
With the US labor movement at historically low levels of unionization, bold strategies are necessary to protect the working class. (Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Our modern economy is now dominated by massive megacompanies like Amazon and Walmart, with operations spanning many different sectors and employment types. With the US labor movement at historically low levels of unionization, bold strategies are necessary to protect the working class.
On this episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek speak with Arizona State University professor Benjamin Y. Fong about the challenges and opportunities that organizing Amazon presents to the labor movement.
Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and published by Jacobin. You can listen to the full episode here. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
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