For more than a decade, we’ve been producing groundbreaking research on Amazon’s monopoly power and calling for it to be broken up.
ILSR’s new report reveals that Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is driving up costs, eroding competition, and harming local economies.
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An increasing number of consumers are looking to eliminate Amazon from their lives, in part because of Jeff Bezos’s efforts to buy influence and put his thumb on the scale of American democracy. We’ve assembled a guide to alternate online shopping destinations, alongside a clear explanation of why folks should consider breaking up with Amazon.
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Our Building Local Power podcast hosts a conversation with Reverend Ryan Brown and Adam Stromme, two organizers with Amazon CAUSE who are working on unionizing Amazon’s SDU1 warehouse outside of Raleigh. Our conversation touches on the danger warehouse workers face, the challenges of organizing at Amazon in the South, and the way Amazon exploits systemic racism to impede worker organizing.
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ILSR's virtual briefing on Amazon’s growing capture of your local public dollars — and what you can do about it.
You know why your local and state governments shouldn't be buying from Amazon. Here's what you can do about it.
In Inequality, Ron Knox analyzes the recent settlement in FTC's "Dark Patterns" case against Amazon.
Stacy Mitchell tells an FTC workshop how companies like Amazon engage in predatory pricing and why current antitrust interpretations fail to address the problem.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed suit against Amazon for monopolizing e-commerce in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. This explainer looks at why the...
In a letter to the FTC, ILSR warns that control over cloud computing is dangerously concentrated thanks in large part to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
How Amazon uses its monopoly power to extract extreme and rapidly growing fees from businesses on their site that have little choice to reach customers.
Amazon claims that it has “a mutually beneficial relationship” with the small businesses that depend on its platform. This fact sheet tells the real story.