Lowthorp, LeahDeVane, Lillian2024-08-072024-08-072024-08-07https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29699I argue that workers can find meaning in their work through the connective process of organizing. I demonstrate how metric-driven workplaces like Amazon severely impact worker culture. I discuss Amazon as a worksite both through outlining the economic forces that contributed to its rise as a uniquely powerful corporate employer and exploring the online laborlore of the Amazon worker on the social media site Reddit. Finally, I analyze my fieldwork with Amazon workers through a folkloric lens and center the contemporary worker within the boundaries of laborlore scholarship.en-USAll Rights Reserved.Electronic Thesis or Dissertation