ORGANIZING AND OCCUPATIONAL CULTURE AT AMAZON FULFILLMENT CENTERS
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Date
2024-08-07
Authors
DeVane, Lillian
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University of Oregon
Abstract
I 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.