RT journal article
T1 Embodied narratives of Amazon workers. A critical cartography of the warehouse
A1 Guerrero Valle, Jorge Luis
A1 Jorge Barbuzano, María Esperanza
A1 Antolínez Domínguez, Inmaculada
A1 Roca Martínez, Beltrán
A2 Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social
A2 Economía General
A2 Estadística e Investigación Operativa
K1 Labour geography,
K1 Critical cartography
K1 Labour process
K1 Labour relations
K1 Body mapping
K1 Workers
K1 Amazon
K1 Spain
AB Warehouses are fundamental enclaves within global supply chains. They are characterised for the use of digital Taylorism, automation and algorithmic control to intensify labour processes and deskill workers. Amazon accompanies these practices with an anti-union policy and the projection of a narrative that emphasizes the benefits of its organizational model. However, several voices have contested the company’s narrative. This article aims to investigate Amazon workers’ embodied counter-narratives about their work experiences and labour relations. To this purpose, the article will employ body mapping as a participatory tool to enrichen our understanding of the spatiality of labour processes. The results show that Amazon practices about employment relations, work safety, mental health, salaries, pace of work and technological control, and work-life balance have a deep impact on workers’ bodies, and, hence, workers’ narratives are strongly connected to their bodies. Finally, the article advocates for the inclusion of body-mapping within critical cartography and labour geography to a better understanding of workers’ bodies as spaces of class struggle.
PB Elsevier
SN 0016-7185
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37340
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37340
LA eng
NO MINECO
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 05-nov-2026