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Primer: A Walk Through the Warehouse

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

News, History, Politics

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Part I: a worker narrates his shift over audio recorded inside a warehouse. That segment was a collaboration between this anonymous worker and Freddie Stuart, a journalist and podcast producer based in London. You can read the duo’s feature article in the next issue of Jacobin. Freddie helped produce this episode. Part II: my conversation with ex-Amazon worker Chris Smalls. That starts around 41 minutes into the episode.

You can listen to Primer by searching for Jacobin Radio on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you want to support the show, subscribe at patreon.com/primerpodcast. When you subscribe, you'll receive show notes and video content, as well as access to the Discord. To keep up with the latest updates, follow us on Twitter @primerpod.

If you want to support Chris's organizing, the GoFundMe for his union is here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Amazon Warehouse work episode.

0:04.3

I won't go over the basics of these jobs, by now you know that there are hundreds of

0:07.7

thousands of people in the United States toiling away in these fulfillment centers that

0:11.9

there are very high injury rates and so on.

0:14.7

Instead of listening to me, we have great segments produced with people who work those jobs.

0:19.0

But before I get to that, introducing the show this week requires some explaining.

0:23.9

For reasons I won't go into, the show has undergone the most minor rebranding in history.

0:28.4

It's now called Primer.

0:30.1

Hopefully that's close enough to the original that it isn't too confusing.

0:33.6

I did consider gaslighting people and saying that it was called Primer the entire time,

0:37.8

but I've ultimately decided against doing that.

0:40.1

The Patreon link remains the same.

0:42.0

Patreon.com backslash primed podcast.

0:45.8

To the 57 people who have subscribed there, thank you, it really means a lot.

0:49.8

For this episode, in addition to show notes and the discord if I can figure out how to

0:53.7

use it, Patreon subscribers will get video of my interview with Chris Smalls.

0:58.3

So this is your reminder that I'm keeping all the episodes free, and the way I can do

1:01.8

that is if people who can afford to subscribe do so.

1:05.3

So if you're enjoying the show, don't hesitate to subscribe at patreon.com backslash primed

1:10.9

podcast.

1:13.4

Now to the episode.

1:14.9

Like I said, we have two segments today.

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