62. Amazon, Vanguard of Class War (ft. Alex N. Press)

Published: April 21, 2021, 12:33 a.m.

b"To conduct a post-mortem investigation on the Amazon warehouse union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, we\\u2019re joined by Alex N. Press\\u2014staff writer for Jacobin and one of our favorite labor reporters. As Alex wrote recently, \\u201cIn the United States, every step of the unionization process is stacked against workers. It is a miracle that anyone ever unionizes.\\u201d We discuss the militancy of capital, the organizing conditions of labor today, and the battle for building worker power. The deck was stacked. We lost this fight. But the class war wages on.\\n\\nFollow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexnpress\\nRead Alex: https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/alex-press \\n\\n\\u2022 Amazon Waged a Brutal Anti-Union Campaign. Unsurprisingly, They Won. | Jacobin | Alex N. Press: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/amazon-bessemer-union-drive-vote-nlrb\\n\\u2022 Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency | Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm \\n\\u2022 How tech workers feel about China, AI and Big Tech\\u2019s tremendous power | Protocol | Emily Birnbaum, Issie Lapowsky: https://www.protocol.com/policy/tech-employee-survey/tech-employee-survey-2021 \\n\\u2022 Amazon's New Algorithm Will Set Workers' Schedules According to Muscle Use | Motherboard | Ed Ongweso: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xeba/amazons-new-algorithm-will-set-workers-schedules-according-to-muscle-use \\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nTMK shirts are now available: bonfire.com/mech-luddite/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)"