{"product_id":"alec-macgillis-fulfillment-9781250829276","title":"Fulfillment","description":"A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice \"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, Los Angeles Times An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlec MacGillis's Fulfillment 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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. Fulfillment 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53580373328214,"sku":"9781250829276-G","price":4.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781250829276_1_173bda89-6652-460c-be3f-2f0bf2f8aa6f.jpg?v=1778465991","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/alec-macgillis-fulfillment-9781250829276","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}