Warehouse work injures workers at rates exceeding coal mining and logging

Evidence

Even though the rise of shipping, logistics, and storage is framed as a way of “saving” regions devastated by deindustrialization, it’s not like these warehouses are equivalent to what preceded them. As the New York Times reports, warehouse jobs replace industrial manufacturing—along with the hard-fought union contracts that characterized the idealized Fordist factory—with precarious, low-paying, nonunion jobs, jobs that are physically demanding and, in the minds of many employers, are potential targets for future automation. Working in a warehouse is difficult, exhausting, soul-sucking labor. Warehouse labor has a higher injury rate than notoriously dangerous jobs in coal mining, construction, and logging. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 287

As the New York Times reports, warehouse jobs replace industrial manufacturing—along with the hard-fought union contracts that characterized the idealized Fordist factory—with precarious, low-paying, nonunion jobs, jobs that are physically demanding and, in the minds of many employers, are potential targets for future automation. Working in a warehouse is difficult, exhausting, soul-sucking labor. Warehouse labor has a higher injury rate than notoriously dangerous jobs in coal mining, construction, and logging. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s framework on labor theory of value — precarious nonunion warehouse labor is the commodity-form supplying the bodies that later become influencer content. — connects to: Railroad workers faced battlefield rates of death from dangerous car coupling — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1145
• SEED: The fact that warehouse injury rates exceed coal mining and logging is a vivid, citable stat for any piece on the Corpocene’s logistical substrate.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 287