For more than a decade, we’ve been producing groundbreaking research on Amazon’s monopoly power and calling for it to be broken up.
It's Time to Break Up with Amazon. Here's How.
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.
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.
Top view of Amazon Prime electric delivery vans, parked at
the logistics hub of Amazon. Turin, Italy - July 2022
How does Amazon Really Make its Money?
The public is largely in the dark about how exactly Amazon makes its money. ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell talked to Wisconsin Public Radio about how Amazon has kept its profits under wraps and what the lawsuit could mean for the company’s future.
Ron Knox responds to U.S. Senate Committee’s report critiquing Amazon’s warehouse workplace safety practices
"Workplace conditions at Amazon warehouses are unlikely to change until the company’s logistic business is exposed to real competition from unionized workplaces," says Ron Knox
The Antimonopoly Movement is the Best Chance We Have
Stacy Mitchell's rousing address to the 2024 Bioneers Conference arguing that the growing antimonopoly movement is our best hope at outrunning the forces of authoritarianism.
The Federal Antitrust Case Against Amazon: An Explainer
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...
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.
Local and federal policymakers have systematically structured tax policy in a way that deepens the concentration of corporate power, Stacy Mitchell and Susan Holmberg argue.
Issue Brief: How Amazon Exploits and Undermines Small Businesses, and Why Breaking It Up Would Revive American Entrepreneurship
In splashy campaigns and lobbying at the Capitol, Amazon claims that it has “a mutually beneficial relationship” with the small businesses that depend on its...
