Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By Sarrah Kassem

This important book sees Sarrah Kassem applying Marx's theory of alienation and the power resources approach in fieldwork to Amazon workers. The text aims to advance our understanding of the platform economy by explaning how the different nature of the platform and nature of the work alienate workers and how workers express their agency within their different political-economic contexts. The book is mainly based upon interviews with Amazon warehouse workers, alongside a survey involving Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers, and participation in meetings held by German trade unions and (trans)national trade unions. The richness of the analysis returns an empirical depth of the work done. However, the author does not provide information on the methodology adopted to analyze the data.