Sarrah Kassem

Sarrah Kassem is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SNS. She is currently working on her project entitled Intersectional Faces of Labor Organization: Solidarity and Mobilizations in Logistics in Europe (INFALA). She is investigating more concretely intersectional labor organizing among MENA workers in logistics in both Germany and Italy.

Prior to joining SNS, she was a Lecturer and Research Associate in Political Economy at the University of Tübingen. She is also the author of Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy - Amazon and the Power of Organization.

Research interests:

labor struggles, industrial relations, critical political economy, intersectionality, the platform economy, logistics

Recent publications:

(2023) Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy – Amazon and the Power of Organization. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

(2023) “(Re)shaping Amazon labour struggles on both sides of the Atlantic: the power dynamics in Germany and the US amidst the pandemic”, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 28(4): 441-456. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258922114949.

(2022) “Labour realities at Amazon and COVID-19: obstacles and collective possibilities for its warehouse workers and MTurk workers”, Global
Political Economy 1(1): 59-79. https://doi.org/10.1332/UVGT2823