Abstracts
Résumé
Mobilisant à plein des ressources quasi-gratuites – des routes à la main d’œuvre –, Amazon surfe sur la concurrence entre territoires pour obtenir des aides financières et des exemptions fiscales à l’appui de ses équipes commerciales, avides de stocks livrables. Catalogage, interfaces client, stockage de données, entrepôts, logistique, l’entreprise accentue l’écart entre les quartiers de l’économie de la connaissance où elle installe son cloud et les friches postindustrielles où une population déqualifiée sert ses entrepôts. Récemment installée à Washington et acteur-clé des clivages sociaux américains, Amazon ne contribue pas à les réduire.
Mots-clés :
- États-Unis,
- Bezos,
- Amazon,
- commerce électronique,
- lobbying,
- territoire,
- Seattle,
- postindustriel,
- division social,
- Internet,
- mondialisation,
- travail,
- capitalisme numérique,
- exemption fiscale
Abstract
Harnessing near-free resources - from roads to labor - Amazon is leveraging competition between territories to secure financial aid and tax exemptions to support its sales teams, hungry for deliverable goods. Cataloging, customer interfaces, data storage, warehouses, logistics - the company is widening the gap between the knowledge economy neighborhoods where it sets up its cloud and the post-industrial wastelands where an unskilled population serves its warehouses. Recently established in Washington, D.C., and a key player in the American social divide, Amazon is not helping to narrow it.
Keywords:
- United States,
- Bezos,
- Amazon,
- e-commerce,
- lobbying,
- territory,
- Seattle,
- post-industrial,
- social divide,
- Internet,
- globalization,
- labor,
- digital capitalism,
- tax exemption
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