amazon cages for workers

  

 

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

amazon cages for workers

"Working conditions inside Amazon warehouses came under scrutiny earlier this year in "Hired," a book about low-wage work in the U.K. by journalist James Bloodworth, who worked undercover at one of the retailer's English warehouses. 

 

He depicted a workplace where workers are treated like "robots,"  

a claim that Amazon disputed: 

 "Actually, robots are treated better," claims Jeff Bezos."

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"Amazon, which has come under fire for treating warehouse workers "as robots," is now deflecting criticism for a 2016 patent that proposed to house workers in cages. 

The patent was highlighted in a recent article by two AI researchers 

who wrote that the design illustrated "an extraordinary illustration of 

 worker alienation, a stark moment in the relationship  

between humans and machines." 

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazons-patent-for-caging-workers-was-a-bad-idea-exec-admits/

"Bring Em On!" 

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"How many times will we have to debate if the Nazi imagery is intentional or accidental?”  

wrote Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the non-profit Jewish Council for Public Affairs 

. “It is never accidental,” responded Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar of authoritarian “strongmen” throughout history. 

(As CPAC dismisses claims that its stage resembled a Nazi insignia, Hyatt calls hate symbols ‘abhorrent’) 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/01/cpac-stage-nazi-symbol-hyatt/