Alec Macgillis

Fulfillment (eBook, ePUB)

Winning and Losing in One-Click America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fulfillment is a gripping exploration of Amazon's far-reaching impact on the American economic divide.

In this literary investigation, award-winning journalist Alec MacGillis reveals how 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.

MacGillis tells the stories of those who've thrived and struggled to thrive in this rapidly changing environment. In Seattle, high-paid workers in new office towers displace a historic black neighborhood. In suburban Virginia, homeowners try to protect their neighborhood from the environmental impact of a new data center. In El Paso, small office supply firms seek to weather Amazon's takeover of government procurement, and in Baltimore, a warehouse supplants a fabled steel plant.

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 lavish Kalorama mansion.

With 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374720179
• Artikelnr.: 59416500

Autorenporträt

Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter for ProPublica and the recipient of the George Polk Award, the Robin Toner prize, and other honors. He worked previously at The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and The New Republic, and his journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other publications. His ProPublica reporting on Dayton, Ohio was the basis of a PBS Frontline documentary about the city. He is the author of The Cynic, a 2014 biography of Mitch McConnell. He lives in Baltimore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Basement 1. Community
SEATTLE 2. Cardboard
DAYTON, OHIO 3. Security
WASHINGTON, D.C. Break: Drop Zone 9, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA 4. Dignity
BALTIMORE 5. Service
EL PASO, TEXAS 6. Power
WASHINGTON, D.C
NORTHERN VIRGINIA
COLUMBUS, OHIO Break: PHL6 Redux, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA 7. Shelter
SEATTLE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 8. Isolation
NELSONVILLE, OHIO
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
COLUMBUS, OHIO 9. Delivery
BALTIMORE
WASHINGTON, D.C. Overtime: May Day