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Design of a New-Age Conglomerate: Examining Amazon Inc's Infrastructure and the Evolution of the Contemporary Digital Conglomerate.

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正題名/作者:	Design of a New-Age Conglomerate: Examining Amazon Inc's Infrastructure and the Evolution of the Contemporary Digital Conglomerate./
作者:	Curtis, Ambrose.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	198 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-11B.
標題:	Internet. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29100098
ISBN:	9798426888296

Design of a New-Age Conglomerate: Examining Amazon Inc's Infrastructure and the Evolution of the Contemporary Digital Conglomerate.
Curtis, Ambrose.

Design of a New-Age Conglomerate: Examining Amazon Inc's Infrastructure and the Evolution of the Contemporary Digital Conglomerate. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 198 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Amazon is a corporation that is tremendous in its infrastructural breadth and ambition. The company is a part of class of new-age conglomerates that includes contemporaries Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google (known as FAANG). In order to maintain its exponential growth, the new-age conglomerate must rely on an exponentially expanding labor force. This work force includes all types of laborers, running the gamut from more traditionally employed laborers to independent contractors. This work examines the ways in which Amazon as a modern conglomerate proliferates new labor precedents for those who may lend their labor to the company in the hopes that these jobs will provide them economic prosperity, as Amazon promises via much of its career opportunities communications.This project argues that despite the promises that Amazon makes to its army of laborers and potential laborers, the realities of the working conditions, expectations, and compensation are starkly different. Moreover, this project examines the ways in which these laborers cope with the precarious realities of their labor. Specifically, this project argues that these laborers often engage in acts of "precarious pre-labor" or ancillary labor necessary to mitigate the uncertainty brought about by their Amazon labor. I focus mainly on one type of precarious pre-labor that is prevalent amongst these workers, which is engagement with each other through online communities in order to provide support and tips for survival. Through digital ethnographic research on the Reddit.com platform, I explore both older threads and more contemporary conversations that demonstrate the survival techniques that these laborers engage in as they labor to help Amazon reach its expansion goals.My ultimate ambition is to also add a more humanistic viewpoint to the ongoing discussions about Amazon, its expansion, and the labor that powers it all. By examining the ways in which a new-age conglomerate situates itself as a producer of labor and also within the contemporary economic landscape this work seeks to answer questions about how these modern conglomerates are shifting labor paradigms and the impact that is having on those who are most victimized by these shifts in labor norms.

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