{"product_id":"fulfillment","title":"Fulfillment","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\u003eA 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. Eighty-three years later, the market capitalization of Amazon.com has exceeded one \u003ci\u003etrillion\u003c\/i\u003e dollars, while the value of the Ford Motor Company hovers around thirty billion. We have, it seems, entered the age of one-click America--and as the coronavirus makes Americans more dependent on online shopping, its sway will only intensify. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlec MacGillis's \u003ci\u003eFulfillment\u003c\/i\u003e is not another inside account or 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\u003eRanging across the country, 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. Meanwhile, 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. \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 lavish 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.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50803958939880,"sku":"9780374159276","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_cfec9c6f-ce5f-42b0-92e9-67df9706ea58.jpg?v=1790295892","url":"https:\/\/kuumba-47muwsn1.myshopify.com\/products\/fulfillment","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}