Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Where Do Consumer Politics Stand in the Age of Amazon?
Rit raises and attempts to answer a really interesting question. Why is it that we see the most visible forms of activism and resistance from the workers associated with the company, rather than its consumers? And where do consumer politics stand in the age of amazon? I'm troubled by the fact that it's workers who have so much to lose, who are consistently the ones m pushing back on amazons policies,. getting amazon in the news. You know, there is something depoliticizing and isolating about the role the amazon has in our lives. It can become hard for people to even invision. Most of the things i interact with on line are em you know, us
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