Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)

RiVAL Radio

Amazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. Her work focuses on the ways working people resist and build solidarity against what can seem like insurmountable odds. * https://www.charmainechua.com/ * https://www.amazoniansunited.org/ * https://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/charmaine-chua The Workers' Speculative Society is a research podcast about the world Amazon is trying to build and the workers, writers, and communities that are demanding a different future. It is part of the Worker as Futurist Project, which supports rank-and-file Amazon workers to write speculative fiction about "The World After Amazon." It is hosted by Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola, and Graeme Webb and is an initiative of RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, with support from the Social Sciences a Humanities Research Council of Canada. Editing and theme music by Robert Steenkamer. * https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/the-workers-speculative * http://workersspeculativesociety.org * http://reimaginingvalue.ca