Sabrina Apicella

Dr. Sabrina Apicella is a research associate at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in the research group 'Globalization, Work and Production' since 2025. She focuses on labor sociology, digitalization, logistics, and migration, with particular expertise in Amazon's transnational labor dynamics.

• PhD in Cultural Studies (Leuphana University, 2016-2020)
• MA in European Ethnology (Humboldt University, 2011-2015)
• BA in Social/Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Latin American Studies (Free University Berlin, 2007-2011)

Her research examines worker voice mechanisms in Amazon warehouses across Germany, the US, and Italy, with methodological emphasis on empirical social research. She analyzes strike motivations, work organization, and transnational labor disputes, particularly in platform capitalism contexts.

Recent publications address Amazon's labor practices in Eastern Europe, wage-driven mobilization, and class consciousness development. Her work spans critical sociology, labor economics, and policy studies, emphasizing mimesis theory and commons-based solutions for migration challenges.

She contributes to debates on European social integration through unemployment benefits and energy commons frameworks.