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New Union on the Block? What Amazon Labor Union’s Success Might Mean for Unionization Nation-Wide
On April 1 2022, an Amazon facility in Staten Island became the first in the company’s history to vote in favor of unionization. Amazon...
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Jun 1, 20225 min read
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Amazon Faces the Labor Movement: Trade Unions and Big Business During the Covid-19 Pandemic
As the Covid-19 outbreak swept across Europe in March 2020, the safety of workers unable to perform their jobs from home could not be so...
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Dec 16, 20205 min read
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Amazon’s Un-Scrutinized Monopolistic Practices
In August 2017, Amazon purchased Whole Foods for $13.7 billion with a “vision of making Whole Foods Market’s high-quality, natural and...
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Nov 13, 20195 min read
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Tough Days Ahead
In his inaugural address, newly elected Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro declared he would free the country from “socialism and...
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Aug 26, 20194 min read
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Alexa, Am I Dying?
Amazon’s Alexa has reshaped how millions of American consumers live and behave at home. We might think of Alexa as that robot we yell at...
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May 28, 20196 min read
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This Land is Their Land: The Amazon’s Cloudy Future Under Tropical Trump
At the end of October, Brazil became the latest country to move to the far-right, electing the ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro to the...
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Dec 9, 20185 min read
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Crunch Time: Constructing a Nation-wide Health Database
Data science has recently matured into an industry-changing discipline, driven by exponentially growing computing power, data, and wildly...
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Mar 17, 20185 min read
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HQ2—To benefit whom?
Amazon’s search for a city in which to locate its second North American headquarters has caused a frenzy among prospective locations....
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Feb 25, 20184 min read
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Regressive Retail: Online Shopping and the Sales Tax
In many states consumers do not pay sales tax for online purchases, unlike their traditional brick-and-mortar counterparts. Legislators...
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May 9, 20164 min read
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The Three C’s
Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers...
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May 15, 20134 min read
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