October 26, Toronto launch of The World After Amazon

We will be launching The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers in Toronto at 6pm 8pm on October 26 at Another Story Bookstore, 315 Roncesvalles Ave.

Speakers:

  • Alessandro Delfanti
  • Max Haiven
  • Sarah Olutola

Since 1994, Amazon has ‘disrupted’ the worlds of books, consumerism, the internet, and much more. However, while the corporation promotes itself as a beacon of the future, its massive profits come at the expense of workers in its warehouses, on its delivery routes, and throughout its vast empire. They toil to build a future over which they have no control. But what if workers could reclaim the power of the imagination?

The World After Amazon, edited by Sarah Olutola, Graeme Webb, Max Haiven and Xenia Benivolski, collects nine short stories by workers along with an introduction and essays by the project’s editors and team. In addition to the print edition, the book will be freely available online and as a podcast and audiobook.

Author Marc McGurl says that these “wonderfully various and surprising stories prove that, if we don’t manage to find our way beyond Amazon, it won’t be for lack of political imagination. In this volume, the labor conditions of the present give us a unique vantage point on possible futures.”  Jamie Woodcock wrote “This excellent collection of worker’s short stories demonstrates the continued importance of worker writing today.”

You can learn more about the project on our website, at Jacobin or the LA Review of Books.

This project is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.