Unpacking Global Amazon

Edited by Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Candia Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera and Nikko Bilitza

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Abstract: Positioning Amazon as a key actor in the digitized global economy, this book examines its relationship with labor markets and institutions worldwide. Tracing the company’s expansion over three-plus decades and controversies since the COVID-19 pandemic, expert contributors demonstrate how Amazon shapes, and is re-shaped by, its various locations through regulation, conflict, and competition. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Keywords: Labor Process; Algorithmic Management; Employment Relations; E-Commerce; Multinational Corporations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035380442
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction: problematizing “global Amazon,” the organization of e-commerce and its labor and social discontents

Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera and Nikko Bilitza

Mapping the contours of “global Amazon” amid the variegations of contemporary capitalism

Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera and Nikko Bilitza

(Dis)organizing labor: a comparative historical overview of Amazon's anti-union strategies in Western Europe

Francesco S. Massimo

Navigating and instrumentalizing the uneven development of Europe: Amazon's German market as a case of (trans)national capital–labor struggles

Sarrah Kassem

Work organization and labor relations at Amazon warehouses in Brazil and Mexico: diffusion and reconstitution of global models

Scott B. Martin, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera and João Paulo Veiga

Amazon's fragile neoliberal Fordism and the challenges for labor organizing in Canada

Mostafa Henaway

Appropriation of the General Intellect: Amazon warehouses in Greater Mexico City

José Cerón

The cyborg manager: enforcing speed through the administration of fear

Tom Vickers, Ricky Gee, Dominic Holland and David Dahill

Challenging the giant: opportunities and barriers to union organizing and labor protests in Amazon Poland

Adam Mrozowicki, Szymon Pilch and Olga Gitkiewicz

Belated upsurges in hostile contexts: labor contention at Amazon in the US and India in comparative and transnational perspective

Scott B. Martin

Labor relations in the last mile sector of Amazon Brazil: platforms, neo-Toyotism, and outsourcing

Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Neusa Maria Dal Ri, Karina Pinhão and Rebecca Ruíz

Making Amazon pay: organizing Amazon workers must be synonymous with the fight against oligarchy and income inequality

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

Mercado Libre: the Amazon of Latin America?

Sonia Filipetto and Gabriela Pontoni

Social movement coalitions and the struggle for regulation: the spatial politics of e-commerce logistics in Greater New York City

Scott B. Martin and Nikko Bilitza

Concluding reflections: the ongoing quest to tame Amazon's platform power

Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera and Nikko Bilitza

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