Whether workers can organize Amazon will be pivotal for the fate of the labor movement worldwide. Initial victories in Coventry, England, and elsewhere show that when unions put serious resources into organizing, they can win.

There is no bright future for the global labor movement without strong, democratic unions at Amazon.

Amazon represents the future of work for all of us. Ninety years ago, capitalists looked to General Motors as the model employer for perfecting productive efficiency, worker exploitation, and profit extraction. Today Amazon is that capitalist trailblazer, deploying AI and robotics for total workplace surveillance and work speedups, contriving new precarious employment schemes to drive down wages and foster workplace division, and amassing dominant roles in the globa

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