“I don’t want Jeff Bezos’s boat, I definitely don’t want his rocket – but I just want to live,” says George (not his real name), who works at Amazon’s vast Coventry “fulfilment centre”, and has become involved in organising workers there.
“I shouldn’t have to work 60 hours a week just to pay bills,” he says. “I’ve got kids. Kids need shoes, school uniform; they need to eat. I had a debt collector send me a letter. I phoned them back and we went through my wages and my outgoings and she said, ‘I don’t know how you’re staying alive’.”
