/541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong
On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains.
Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the substack On The Seams, talks to Alex and George about organising workers in locations of corporate vulnerability.
We also preview the forthcoming print issue of Damage, Trains, by discussing modernity and its avatars, and development and de-development in Brazil.
Why target Amazon above all else?
What are the "seams" and why are they important?
Can labour still "go after the big targets"? Do these still exist given the dispersion of production…
The skinny
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