{"product_id":"9780241803486","title":"When the Revolution Comes : A Story About Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Smalls, Chris \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/06\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241803486,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In an age of cloud serfdom, Chris Smalls is Prometheus unbound. His book is our instruction manual for cutting Amazon’s knot and reclaiming hope and dignity' YANIS VAROUFAKISThe outrageous, jaw-dropping true story of the man who took on a corporate giant – and won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dedicated and experienced Amazon employee, Chris Smalls had begun to feel frustrated by the inner workings of the retail giant – he kept being passed over for promotion, with little to no explanation. So when his colleagues and friends began falling ill in the Covid pandemic, and with no assurances of safety or even sick leave from the top, he made the only choice left available to him. He staged a walkout with friend Derrick Palmer, eventually finding himself on the picket line without a job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat began as a demand to keep essential employees safe in a crisis would grow into a movement devoted to achieving dignity and security for the wage worker, triggering a groundswell of organizers at Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Apple – and across the world. We follow Smalls’s years of sacrifice and economic uncertainty as a father of three, from fighting warehouse managerial politics in an effort to make ends meet, to his ascension as the leader of a new generation’s labour movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Revolution Comes is the riveting inside story of how a young Black man from Hackensack, NJ with little-to-no resources led a scrappy band of Staten Island warehouse workers in an improbable fight against Amazon to create its first Labor Union. An exposé of life lived in the laboratory of capitalism and a terrifying depiction of what it’s like to be working class in America, this book tells a new, empowering story of what is possible when the overworked, underpaid and disempowered join together, forming a movement born in community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57005427753333,"sku":"9780241803486","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241803486.jpg?v=1774692624","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241803486","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}