{"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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50671583068434,"sku":"9781250829276","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e489281d-830d-4fc5-a695-6706f0933626.jpg?v=1733804537","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fulfillment-america-in-the-shadow-of-amazon-9781250829276","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}