User talk:Richie241

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For my book I picked Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America’s Working Class and I picked chapter five Steel Labor and the United steelworkers of America Culture of Constraint, 1936-1950. The wikipedia article I chose is about the company Amazon. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia The area I am using to make my connection can be found in the contents under Controversies. Since the success of Amazon and Amazon prime shipping the priority of worker safety has not been a chief concern to the company. Amazon has also been opposed to worker unions within its company for as long as there have been employees. The problem with Amazon is the blatant greed and value of money of everything else. Amazon has also been caught using it’s price finder app to reroute customers to their products by offering a 5% discount on an alternative item when you scan an item at a physical store. Amazon uses a large number of cameras and surveillance technology like facial recognition to monitor all of their workers to ensure they are workers efficiently. Much like the steel workers who had their employees hanging over them, Amazon also does the same thing with the assistance of new technology. Amazon workers are also being paid the bare minimum with Amazon using every loophole to pay warehouse workers less and less. For example, instead of hiring one full time employee amazon will hire two part time employees. Amazon doesn't have to pay for any of their worker benefits and can fire the two part time employees in a couple months rather than keep a full time employee with benefits and seeks to earn then they are currently. Just as steel workers were treated as another cog in the machine, Amazon workers are being treated like robots valued based on maximum efficiency and never taking a bathroom break or letting down the company. In page 188 we see how the steel workers only wanted a better quality of life their working a fair job and that is also what Amazon workers are trying to do but their are so many loopholes and Amazon is now so big they feel like a monopoly taking over and workers feel powerless more than in the steel factories.

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Welcome! I saw your edits on SWOC and came to your talk page. You didn’t include a source/reference on the Wikipedia article about the Steel Worker newspaper, so please add that when you can.

I saw you’re interested in Amazon as well, recently Amazon worker organization was created which may be of interest to you as well. In general if you have questions about editing labor topics on Wikipedia, check out WP:LABOR and feel free to ping me directly. Happy editing! ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 00:34, 13 December 2021 (UTC)