Is Amazon the Future of Labor?

Rebecca Kolins Givan

Rutgers University

From warehouses to delivery vans, Amazon workers are everywhere. With over a million employees, Amazon has become one of the country’s largest employers. Workers from Staten Island to Chicago to Bessemer, Alabama, are organizing and fighting back against physically demanding jobs that take place under constant surveillance and produce frequent injuries. Kolins Givan, associate professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers, has published widely on work and worker representation in the United States and Europe. Is Amazon the future of work? she asks. The answer has major implications for organized labor.

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