ABSTRACT
The e-logistics revolution, driven by Amazon’s agenda-setting supply chain management practices, has reshaped the global logistics industry, further amplifying exploitive labor conditions for logistics workers in warehousing, short-haul trucking, and home package delivery. In Southern California alone, Amazon tripled the number of delivery hubs in order to meet the daily average of 3.1 million packages delivered daily in 2020, creating congestion and environmental pollution. By 2023, Amazon is projected to overtake Walmart as the world’s biggest corporation and employer. Prior to e-commerce, the offline logistics revolution produced four major outcomes for logistics workers: increased contingency, weakened unions, the racialization of labor, leading to lowered labor standards. The e-logistics revolution has made next or same-day product-to-doorstep consumerism possible, which has led to a retransformation of existing logistics supply chains by pulling the end point of the supply chain closer to consumers while simultaneously accelerating the overall speed of the movement of goods.
