Prof. Jake Wilson featured on ‘Radicals in Conversation’ to discuss Amazon’s rise in corporate power & the impact on workers and the economy

Prof. Jake Alimahomed-Wilson was recently featured on Pluto Press’s podcast: Radicals in Conversation were he discusses his new co-edited book with Ellen Reese, The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy. Prof. Wilson, alongside sociologists Ellen Reese & Nantina Vgontzas, and Amazon warehouse worker activist and organizer, Christian Zamarron from DCH1 Amazonians United! critically analyze Amazon’s rise in the global economy. 

This episode discusses what Alimahomed-Wilson and Reese describe as “Amazon capitalism”, including Amazon’s meteoric rise in global corporate power; the mass surveillance of workers, activists, and consumers; the racialization of Amazon’s blue-collar workforce; Amazon’s impact on unions and communities; automation, robots, and the future of work; and transnational worker organizing and resistance.