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The Red Thread
The Red Thread is a podcast from Left Voice where we explore workers’ struggles, union organizing, socialist theory, social movements, imperialism, climate change, and the ongoing fight for socialism. We thread the needle from historical struggles of exploited and oppressed peoples to today's fight for socialism and liberation in short episodes every week.
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The Red Thread
Amazon's Secret to Success is Exploitation
In this episode of The Red Thread, we reveal Amazon’s true secret to success. Spoiler alert: it’s not about innovation, technology, or entrepreneurship, but something far older: capitalist exploitation.
The are over a million workers who make Amazon run. They are subjected to long hours, mandatory overtime, surveillance, union-busting, and injuries caused by their work. They're paid a tiny fraction of the value they produce, and the rest of it gets pocketed by Bezos and other shareholders, making them incomprehensibly rich.
Amazon embodies capitalism’s worst features, hiding behind an image of convenience while exploiting a workforce that’s constantly under surveillance. But we know that Amazon workers hold a huge power, and once that giant wakes up, it can shake the world.
Read more:
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-myth-of-our-disposability-reflections-from-an-amazon-warehouse-worker-on-prime-day/
https://www.leftvoice.org/inside-amazon-exploitation-and-the-fight-against-capitalist-dystopia/
Hosts: Killian and Melanie
Producer: Luigi Morris
Music: Griffin Brown
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