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Inside the Amazon warehouse / Alessandro Delfanti

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Alessandro Delfanti on his book "The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon" from Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342177/the-warehouse/

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0:00.0

The Lord is the Lord is with the

0:13.0

Gers of our power.

0:15.0

The Lord is going to be

0:16.0

Take a job. Oh, uh, no. Oh,

0:24.0

The Gee, man!

0:25.0

Mee, man!

0:27.0

And then! This is hell.

0:37.0

manufacturing descent since 1996. This is hell. Advertisements for Amazon workers have been

0:50.8

relentless recently and it makes sense on so many levels.

0:54.8

First, the holidays are fast approaching and Amazon is going to need more warehouse

0:59.2

workers and delivery drivers, at least temporarily.

1:04.0

Sure, the ads selling jobs at Amazon say they pay well are flexible and will even pay all of your

1:09.2

college expenses.

1:11.1

But in reality, the pay is not great, the hours are long are long you have to be a full-time not-tem worker

1:16.7

To get any kind of benefits which is not the vast majority of warehouse workers who work indirectly for Amazon through outside hiring agencies.

1:25.0

Second, it also makes sense that Amazon is advertising that they're hiring

1:30.0

because Amazon churns through workers at an alarming rate.

1:34.0

But that makes sense too.

1:35.0

It's just 10 to 12 hours long with the vast majority of that time spent on your feet

1:40.0

and in competition with your fellow workers workers making for a none too pleasant work

1:44.8

environment.

1:45.8

Then there's the constant surveillance by technology meant to control you every second of every

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