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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Cyborg Taylorism in the Warehouse, with Beth Gutelius
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In this episode, we’re returning to the supply chain story, this time looking in on the warehouse. Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island and Bessemer continue their push toward union votes, and warehouse workers around the country have been registering unrest in a variety of ways. But what is really going on inside the warehouse, how does it connect to shipping, trucking, and retail, and how close are we to fully automated robot logistics? Beth Gutelius, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois Chicago, jo...