The Injury Crisis in Amazon Warehouses w/ Will Evans
11 19 20
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The Injury Crisis in Amazon Warehouses
Will Evans
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Will Evans to discuss how excessive productivity targets are causing high rates of injury at Amazon warehouses, how executives have misled the public about the problem, and what that suggests about the impacts of the company’s “customer obsession.”
Guest
Will Evans is a reporter at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Read his investigation about Amazon’s safety crisis. Follow Will on Twitter as @willCIR.
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Links
- Paris reflected on what Will’s investigation suggested about the relationship between consumerism and workers’ rights for NBC News.
- Will did an earlier investigation about safety (or the lack thereof) at Tesla.
- Brian Merchant wrote an “op-ed from the future” looking at how technology hides the harm to workers in a fictional fully automated Amazon warehouse.