Unsustainable

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Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation

By Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese

Summary

Unsustainable investigates Amazon’s vast fulfilment centre network, revealing the exploitation behind the company’s rapid rise. Authors Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese focus on Inland Southern California, a major logistics hub and home to Amazon’s largest private-sector workforce, illustrating the environmental and socioeconomic damage caused by unregulated warehousing growth. The book highlights grassroots resistance efforts and offers critical insights into the ongoing struggles faced by workers and communities impacted by Amazon’s business model.
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This book is suited for readers interested in labour rights, environmental issues, corporate impact on communities, and socio-economic studies related to large-scale warehouses and the gig economy.

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From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the company built a vast worldwide network of fulfilment centres and warehouses. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon is only made possible by the exploitation of workers' labour and communities' resources.

Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repercussions of these pernicious strategies through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing in Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer.

Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to the warehouse industry by workers and communities across this region, the country, and the globe, Unsustainable provides fresh insight into one of the most important and far-reaching struggles of our time.

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Social Forces praises the book for its comprehensive and insightful analysis of the environmental and human costs of Amazon’s dominance, emphasising the impact on local communities, low-wage workers, and labour exploitation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520388383

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 10 b-w photographs, 8 tables, 2 maps

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 356

Collections

Business & Entrepreneurship Education & Reference Ellen Reese Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Juliann Emmons Allison Non-Fiction

About the Author

Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director of Global Studies, and Faculty Chair of Sustainability at the University of California, Riverside. She is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics.

Ellen Reese is Professor of Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present and They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back: Welfare Activism in an Era of Retrenchment and coeditor of The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy.