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When the Revolution Comes

De : Chris Smalls
Lu par : Chris Smalls, Tyrell Harrell
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The outrageous, jaw-dropping true story of the man who took on a corporate giant – and won.

A dedicated and experienced Amazon employee, Chris Smalls had begun to feel frustrated by the inner workings of the retail giant – he kept being passed over for promotion, with little to no explanation. So when his colleagues and friends began falling ill in the Covid pandemic, and with no assurances of safety or even sick leave from the top, he made the only choice left available to him. He staged a walkout with friend Derrick Palmer, eventually finding himself on the picket line without a job.

What began as a demand to keep essential employees safe in a crisis would grow into a movement devoted to achieving dignity and security for the wage worker, triggering a groundswell of organizers at Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Apple – and across the world. We follow Smalls’s years of sacrifice and economic uncertainty as a father of three, from fighting warehouse managerial politics in an effort to make ends meet, to his ascension as the leader of a new generation’s labour movement.

When the Revolution Comes is the riveting inside story of how a young Black man from Hackensack, NJ with little-to-no resources led a scrappy band of Staten Island warehouse workers in an improbable fight against Amazon to create its first Labor Union. An exposé of life lived in the laboratory of capitalism and a terrifying depiction of what it’s like to be working class in America, this book tells a new, empowering story of what is possible when the overworked, underpaid and disempowered join together, forming a movement born in community.

'In an age of cloud serfdom, Chris Smalls is Prometheus unbound. His book is our instruction manual for cutting Amazon’s knot and reclaiming hope and dignity' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

© Chris Smalls 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

 Activistes Classes sociales et disparité économique Comportement au travail et organisationnel Politique et activisme Sociologie
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When the Revolution Comes is a modern-day Grapes of Wrath that exposes corporate America’s skulduggery, and its author is a real-life Tom Joad, but “decked out in bright colours and full drip” (Richard Horan)
Reading this wonderful book, I can hear Chris Smalls's powerful voice as he exposes the abominable exploitation of young workers in the online retail sector. This book provides inspiration and hope for so many who have been ground down by corruption and poverty (Jeremy Corbyn)
In every page of this book is a story of incredible personal and political resilience. But even more so the collective power of workers who took on the billionaires - and won (Zack Polanski)
In an age of cloud serfdom, Chris Smalls is Prometheus unbound. His book is our instruction manual for cutting Amazon’s knot and reclaiming hope and dignity (Yanis Varoufakis)
Jeff Bezos doesn't want you to read this, which is why you should. A true David vs. Goliath story, and one that continues today (Luke Kemp, author of GOLIATH'S CURSE)
Chris Smalls eloquently busts the modern myth of the American dream, exposes how billionaires use fear as a form of control and reveals just how fragile their hold can be. An outstanding, galvanising book (Danny Dorling, author of The Next Crisis)
With candor and fierce moral clarity, Chris Smalls takes readers behind the scenes of the most consequential labor uprising in modern history—and it’s one hell of a ride. What begins as a gripping personal narrative grows into a blueprint for worker-led resistance, full of stubborn hope and a timely reminder of what ordinary people can achieve, if only we come together. (Jessica Bruder, author of NOMADLAND)
When The Revolution Comes is an honest, courageous, painful, and wildly inspiring story of one man's journey to make what seemed impossible, possible. Smalls leaves us with one of the most important lessons of social change—when we refuse to accept injustice, every day, and everywhere, for ourselves and for others, remarkable and transformative change is not only possible, it is inevitable (Alicia Garza author of The Purpose of Power)
Chris Smalls has given us one of the best autobiographies in American labor history, revealing with truth and humility the emerging consciousness of a young progressive, then elucidating with care the myriad challenges of a grassroots battle for workers' rights, one that has made him an inspiration to that struggle around the world (Philip Dray author of There is Power in a Union)
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