Tag: Logistics

Blue tractor trailer with Amazon Prime logo crosses a bridge over water.
Amazon

Turnover Time

Kim Moody explains how the extreme optimization of Amazon’s logistics systems, which keep goods (and therefore, capital) in constant motion, produces massive profits for the company while rendering it distinctively vulnerable to workers’ intervention. As technologically advanced as it is, Amazon still relies on human labor at every point in production; as its logistics networks become increasingly complicated, the points at which production can be slowed or stopped by organized labor continue to multiply.

COVID-19

Upticks, Waves, and Social Upsurge

Kim Moody explores the significance of Striketober 2021: what it means, and just as importantly, what it doesn’t.

Health & Health Care

Postcards From the Pandemic

“Postcards from the Pandemic” is a cartoon published by and for Amazon workers, in eight languages, by Amazon Workers International (AWI), a global network of Amazon workers’ organizations.

A red pipeline, upheld by a bridge of metal cables, fades into the white mist. Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash
Anti-capitalism

The Global Supply Chain

The vulnerability of the global supply chain has been thrown into sharp relief amid the global pandemic. But earlier this year that vulnerability was also exposed by indigenous protests and solidarity actions across Canada. John Clarke, a longstanding anti-poverty activist in Toronto, draws some strategic lessons.

A lone truck or "road train" travels down an otherwise empty Australian road, beneath a blue and party cloudy sky
Anti-capitalism

How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19

Historically, most epidemics have spread geographically through two common forms of long-distance movement: trade and war. The timing, however, changed dramatically with the rise of capitalism.

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