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Research Interests:

• Race, Racism, & Labor; Logistics, Ports, Warehouses & Supply Chains; Racialized Divisions in the Working-Class; Unions; Global Workers’ Struggles; E-commerce’s (Amazon’s) Impact on Work/Labor; The Gig Economy; Automation, Algorithmic Management & the Future of Work; Whiteness, Masculinities & Labor

Main Courses:

• Introduction to Sociology (Soc. 100)
• Environmental Sociology (Soc. 410)
• Long Beach Community Internship Program (LBCIP) (CLA 492)

Education:

• A.A., Mount San Antonio College
• B.S. (magna cum laude), Conservation & Resource Studies, UC Berkeley
• M.A., Ph.D., Sociology, UC Riverside

Overview: 

• Dr. Jake Alimahomed-Wilson’s research explores the ways that racism and labor exploitation intersect. He is particularly interested in the global logistics industry and the workers who move goods around the world. His current research examines the impact of e-commerce (i.e. Amazon) on work and labor.
• Dr. Wilson’s latest co-edited (with Ellen Reese) book, The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy, was released in 2020 by (Wildcat Series) is the winner of the 2021 Best Book Award, (UALE). This book provides a rich and interdisciplinary collection of critical essays by scholars, activists, and labor and community organizers that interrogates the global significance of Amazon’s rise and the growing popular resistance to it around the world.  The Cost of Free Shipping will soon be published in Korean (Mobidic Communications, Seoul) and Italian (Altreconomia, Milan) editions.
• Dr. Wilson currently serves on the Executive Board (Full Professor Representative) for the (Long Beach Chapter) and serves on the Advisory Committee of CSU Dominguez Hills’ and serves on the Advisory Board of the .
• During the Spring 2018 semester, Dr. Wilson taught courses on “Global Workers” and “Environmental Sociology” to CSU students in London at University College London.
• Currently, Dr. Wilson serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of and on the Editorial Board of the In 2022, he co-edited (with Robert Ovetz) a special issue on for New Global Studies.

Books:

• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Ellen Reese (eds.). 2020. , UK: Pluto Press. **Winner of the United Association for Labor Education (UALE) Best Book Award**
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Immanuel Ness (eds.). 2018. . London, UK: Pluto Press.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2016. . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson. 2008. . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Articles, book chapters, & other publications:

• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Ellen Reese. Forthcoming. “Surveilling Amazon’s Warehouse Workers: Racism, Retaliation, and Worker Resistance Amid the Pandemic,” in Race, Class, and Gender (12th Edition), edited by Paula Rothenberg and Christina Hsu Accomando. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2023. “The E-logistics Revolution: Amazon, Labor and the Future of Logistics Work.” , edited by Immanuel Ness. Routledge.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2022. “.” Mouvements, 2(3): 26-35.
• Reese, Ellen and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2022. “.” New Labor Forum, 31(3): 43-51.
• Potiker, Spencer Louis, Dana M. Williams and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2022. “Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces.” Journal of World Systems Research, 28(2): 188-218.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2022. “The World is a Warehouse: Racialised Labour Regimes and the Rise of Amazon’s Global Logistics Empire.” , edited by Neil Martin Coe, Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, and Adrian Smith. Agenda Publishing.
• Ovetz Robert and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2022. “.” New Global Studies, 16(1): 1-5.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Ellen Reese. 2022. “.” Global Labour Column, February 24. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Ellen Reese. 2021. “”  1(1-2): 55-73.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2021. “Racialized Masculinities and Global Logistics Labor.”&�Բ�����;, edited by Carlotta Benvegnú, Niccolò Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti, Evelina Gambino, Floriano Milesi, Irene Peano, and Maurilio Pirone. Bologna: Dipartimento delle Arti, University of Bologna. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2021. “La Révolution de la E-logistique: E-commerce, Travail et Retransformation de la Chaîne D’approvisionnement de la Californie du Sud.” .
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2021. “La Amazonificación de la Logística: Comercio Electrónico, Trabajo y Explotación en la Última Milla.” , 43: 71-83. 
• Chua, Charmaine, Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2021. “.” The Nation, June 22.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake (interview by Tatiana Cozzarelli and Maryam Alaniz). 2021. “.” , April 4.
• Alimahomed,-Wilson, Jake and Ellen Reese (interview by Jörn Boewe and Johannes Schulten). 2021. “Gespräch: Amazons Kometenhafter Aufstieg ist ein Schlüsselmoment im Globalen Kapitalismus.”&�Բ�����;, March 21. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2021. “.” LA Progressive, February 13. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2021. “.”&�Բ�����;, February. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2020. “.” LA Progressive, December 19.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2020. “” Labor Notes, December 17.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Ellen Reese. 2020. “,” October 13. Jacobin. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2020. “The Amazonification of Logistics: E-Commerce and the Struggle for the Last Mile.” The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy. London: Pluto Press.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2020. “.” Into the Black Box: Research on Logistics, Spaces, & Labour. 
• Alimahomed-Jake, and Ellen Reese. 2020. “.” Pluto Press. 
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2019. Work Organization, Labour, & Globalisation, 13(1): 96-13. (WOLG Special Issue: ).
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake, Katy Fox-Hodess, and Kim Moody (interview by Chris Browne). 2018.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2018. “Decolonising Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain.” London: Pluto Press.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2017. “The Logistics of Occupation: Israel’s Colonial Suppression of Palestine’s Goods Movement Infrastructure.” , (20)4: 427-447.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake and Dana Williams. 2016. , 6(1): 1-15.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2013. “Logistics Revolution (in shipping).” , edited by Vicki Smith and Geoffrey Golson.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2012. “Black Longshoremen and the Fight for Equality in an ‘Anti-Racist’ Union.” , 53(4): 39-53.
• Bonacich, Edna and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2012. “Headway for African American Workers in South Los Angeles.” In , edited by Josh Sides. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. 2011. “.” Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies, 6(1): 22-44.
• Bonacich, Edna and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2011. “.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture & Society, 13(2): 213-226.
• Alimahomed, Sabrina and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2009. “Protest as Embodied State Practices: An Examination of Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Protest Tactics.” . 
• Bonacich, Edna, Sabrina Alimahomed, and Jake B. Wilson. 2008. “.” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (3): 342-355.
• Wilson, Jake B. 2008. “.” Critical Sociology, 34 (3): 349-367.
• Bonacich, Edna and Jake B. Wilson. 2005. “.” New Labor Forum, 14 (Summer): 67-75.
• Bonacich, Edna and Jake Wilson. 2005. “Global Production and Distribution: Wal-Mart’s Global Logistics Empire.” In , edited by Stanley D. Brunn. Pp. 227-242. New York: Routledge.

Awards:

• 2022 FRA-EDI Award Initiative: “Long Beach Community Internship Program: Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” Beth Manke and Jake Wilson. Office of Research and Economic Development, California State University, Long Beach.
• 2021 Best Book Award, , The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy
• 2021 Climate Justice and Sustainability Fellow, California State University, Long Beach.
• 2020 Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership’s Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Award. ������. 
• 2015-2016 . California State University, Long Beach.
• 2015, 2019 Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), Mentorship Award. California State University, Long Beach.
• 2014 Most Inspiring Professor, ������ Alumni Association. California State University, Long Beach.
• 2013 Enhancing Education Through Technology (3ET) Award, Flipping the Classroom Stipend. California State University, Long Beach.
• 2013 Faculty Mentoring Award, Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). California State University, Long Beach.
• 2012 . The Dolores Huerta Labor Institute. Los Angeles Community College.