{"product_id":"fulfillment-america-in-the-shadow-of-amazon-9781250829276","title":"Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effectively.\" --Carolyn Kellogg, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle\u003ci\u003e A Story of Ford-America\u003c\/i\u003e. He blasted the callousness of a company worth \"a billion dollars\" that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetitive and sometimes dangerous assembly-line labor. Eight decades later, the market capitalization of Amazon.com has exceeded $1.5 trillion, while the value of the Ford Motor Company hovers around $30 billion. We have entered the age of one-click America--and as the coronavirus makes Americans more dependent on online shopping, Amazon's sway will only intensify. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlec MacGillis's \u003ci\u003eFulfillment\u003c\/i\u003e is not another exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company's growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon's sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Seattle, high-paid workers in new office towers displace a historic Black neighborhood. In Ohio, cardboard makers supplant auto manufacturers, and in suburban Virginia, homeowners try to protect their town from the environmental impact of a new data center. When a warehouse replaces a fabled steel plant on the outskirts of Baltimore, a new model of work becomes visible. \u003ci\u003eFulfillment\u003c\/i\u003e also shows how Amazon has become a force in Washington, D.C., ushering readers through a revolving door for lobbyists and government contractors and into CEO Jeff Bezos's Kalorama mansion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith empathy and breadth, MacGillis demonstrates the hidden human costs of the other inequality--not the growing gap between rich and poor, but the gap between the country's winning and losing regions. The result is an intimate account of contemporary capitalism: its drive to innovate, its dark, pitiless magic, its remaking of America with every click.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-8968252\"\u003eAlec Macgillis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250829276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250829275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS023000\"\u003eEconomic History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS116000\"\u003eLogistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS090000\"\u003eE-Commerce | General (see also Computers | Electronic Commer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlec MacGillis \u003c\/b\u003eis a senior reporter for \u003ci\u003eProPublica\u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of a George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and other honors. He worked previously at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and his journalism has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He is a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and lives in Baltimore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45910863511727,"sku":"9781250829276","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_dd659ae5-dfc2-4195-b8f8-d9ad61b49cd3.jpg?v=1758738764","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/es\/products\/fulfillment-america-in-the-shadow-of-amazon-9781250829276","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}