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Preface: Amazon and the Future of Work in the Global Economy - Ruth Milkman (Graduate Center, CUNY) Introduction: Interrogating Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (California State University, Long Beach), Juliann Allison (University of California, Riverside), and Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside) Part I: Amazon's Rise in Global Power 1. Amazon in Context - Kim Moody (University of Westminster) 2. Power Accrues to the Powerful: Amazon's Marketshare, Customer Surveillance, and Internet Dominance - Dana M. Williams (California State University, Chico) 3. Transnational Amazon: Labor Exploitation and the Rise of E-Commerce in South Asia - Jeb Sprague (University of California, Riverside) and Sreerekha Sathi (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Part II: Exploitation and Resistance Across Amazon's Global Empire 4. The Amazonification of Logistics: E-Commerce and the Struggle for the Last-Mile - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (California State University, Long Beach) 5. Automation and the Surveillance-Driven Warehouse - Jason Struna (University of Puget Sound) and Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside) 6. Gender, Race, and Warehouse Labor in the United States - Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside) 7. A New Industrial Working Class? Challenges in Disrupting Amazon's Fulfilment Process in Germany - Nantina Vgontzas (New York University) 8. A Struggle for Bodies and Souls: Amazon Management and Union Strategies in France and Italy - Francesco Massimo (Sciences Po Paris) Part III: Communities Confronting the E-Commerce Giant 9. Company Town: What Happens to a City and its Democracy When Amazon Dominates? - Katie Wilson (General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union) 10. Lessons from New York City's Struggle Against Amazon HQ2 in Long Island City - Steve Lang (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) and Filip Stabrowski (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) 11. What Happens When Amazon Comes to Town? Environmental Impacts, Local Economies and Resistance in Inland Southern California - Juliann Emmons Allison (University of California, Riverside) 12. Worker and Community Organizing to Challenge Amazon's Algorithmic Test - Sheheryar Kaoosji (Warehouse Worker Resource Center) Part IV: Struggling to Win Against Amazon 13. Amazon Strikes in Germany and Europe: Seven years of Industrial Action, Challenges, and Strategies - Jorn Boewe and Johannes Schulten (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany) 14. Bursting the Bubble: Emerging Tech Worker Movement at Amazon - Spencer Cox (University of Minnesota) 15. The CEO Has No Clothes: Worker Leadership and Amazon's Failures During COVID-19 - Dania Rajendra (Athena) 16. Think Big: Organizing a Successful Amazon Workers' Movement in the United States by Combining the Strengths of the Left and Organized Labor - Peter Olney and Rand Wilson (SEIU Local 888, Boston) 17. Amazonians United! - An Interview with DCH1 (Chicago) Amazonians United Conclusion: Resisting Amazon Capitalism - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (California State University) and Ellen Reese (University of California, Riverside)