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by Edited by Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola and Graeme Webb

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What will the world look like after Amazon? 
We asked the corporation’s workers. 
With over 1.6-million employees, Amazon is one of the largest corporate empires to have ever existed. 
But while the company tells a utopian story about its gifts to the world, its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions of overwork, insecurity, and relentless surveillance. 
As workers’ movements and community groups around the world rise to challenge Amazon’s power, the nine stories in this book, written by rank-and-file Amazon workers, speculate on what the future holds for people and the planet.
For more information as well free ebook, audiobook and podcast versions of The World After Amazon, visit http://afteramazon.world.
Since it was founded in 1994 as an online bookshop, Amazon has aggressively transformed not only the way we read but also fields as diverse as logistics, film and television, artificial intelligence, groceries and web services. In addition to the 1.6 million drivers, sorters, coders, and others who are on its payroll, millions more rely on the company as independent contractors, trapped in Amazon’s gamified platforms.
Since its earliest origins, Amazon’s founder and current Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos has infused the firm with the spirit of science fiction. The genre has inspired the iconic billionaire to invest his fortune in a private space company that promises to take humanity to the stars. But here on earth, the corporation’s workers are compelled to build a future that will exclude them.
What happens when workers reclaim the power to tell their own stories and reclaim their right to author their own futures? The Worker as Futurist Project supports current and former workers at Amazon to write short, speculative fiction as an act of resistance. This book is the result of a series of workshops held in 2023.
For more information, visit http://afteramazon.world