Logistics and Labor
Lezing / Debat
A public lecture by Charmaine Chua in collaboration with the DIGIPORTS research team at Erasmus University. Tuesday 1 October, 19:00 – 20:30 (Doors open at 18:30). Free entrance, but registration is required. Register here.
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Logistics, Labor, and the Struggle Against Amazon
Since its founding in 1994, Amazon.com has expanded into one the largest tech and retail companies in the world. In the process, it has entirely remade global capitalism, reaching all the way from factory spaces in China to the doorstep of our homes, transforming urban peripheries into a dense network of distribution centers, and creating a new logistics working class. How did Amazon reach this position of domination in the global economy, and what are Amazon workers doing to fight against it?
In this talk, co-organised by the DIGIPORTS research team at Erasmus University, Professor Charmaine Chua traces Amazon’s unique capacity to control and coordinate a vast logistics network by combining logistics, retail and digital services into a single corporate entity, allowing it to extend market domination over massive global supply chains. Drawing on her experience organizing with Amazonians United in California, her talk will also examine how this domination is being resisted by Amazon tech workers and warehouse workers building momentum and solidarity by waging united demands around climate justice, healthcare access, and resistance to the military and prison industrial complex.