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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the precariat and post-Fordism

Since the emergence of precarity as "the central organising platform for a series of social struggles that spread across the space of Europe," there has been an effort, particularly by prearious activists, to build a subject that could be considered as the dominant form of the contemporary (post-Fo…

—p.151 Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! (145) by Carolin Philipp, Dimitris Parsanoglou
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vitiate

These factors had a vitiating effect on the BDLB, which eventually saw a slow dismantling of the protective schemes for workers.

why do i always think this word means the opposite.

—p.133 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai (129) by Johnson Abhishek Minz
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the "locking in" of economies

Global value chains (GVCs) have reconfigured production processes over numerous geographies of the globe, leading to an international division of the labor process. This division has been congruent tot he plot of the expansion of transnational corporations, posited within the logic of capitalism, w…

—p.129 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai (129) by Johnson Abhishek Minz
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temp workers at Amazon

Workers from temporary agencies are in a more precarious situation. They are under pressure to work hard (should they want to "qualify" for permanent employment) and can be sacked easily. Some of them have been active in the union, and IP has tried to get them involved by addressing their specific …

—p.103 Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland (96) missing author
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solidarity between German and Polish workers at Amazon

Before a strike in Germany in June 2015, the management the Poznań warehouse announced one hour of overtime during the upcoming strike day across the border. Workers in Poznań were already aware that Amazon tried to bypass and undermine strikes in Germany by shifting orders between warehouses (in t…

—p.100 Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland (96) missing author