An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.
In 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 repetiti...
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.
In 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. Eighty-three years later, the market capitalization of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion 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.
Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment 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.
Ranging 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. 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.
作者简介
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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...
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.
通篇都在说losing，而没有winning。其实winning的应该就是消费者和亚马逊本身。然而消费者哪里都是，所以获益者众。列举的都是对“血汗工厂”的批判。亚马逊如何让包括百货公司以内的brick and mortar store各种倒闭，对员工各种压榨安全措施不到位，过分拔高当地的COL迫使原住民流离失所。公司享受各种当地政府的优惠政策。贝索斯赚得盆满钵满。公司做得太大确实容易招恨。
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1 有用 多喜子 2022-02-26 05:58:14
[有声书] 从几大方面来探讨Amazon过去20多年的崛起对美国社会不平等的加剧：被压榨的底层员工（主要是在仓库做货物分类和发货）不仅工资低而且工作安全保障低；对中小企业的排挤，真没想到平时的Amazon marketplace背后可能都是一个个薄利的小商家，以后邮件要问卷的话就填写吧；一些相关城市的贫富分化（比如起家的西雅图，比如后来看上的大DC地区，以及DC和巴尔的摩的对比）；也好好批判了几年... [有声书] 从几大方面来探讨Amazon过去20多年的崛起对美国社会不平等的加剧：被压榨的底层员工（主要是在仓库做货物分类和发货）不仅工资低而且工作安全保障低；对中小企业的排挤，真没想到平时的Amazon marketplace背后可能都是一个个薄利的小商家，以后邮件要问卷的话就填写吧；一些相关城市的贫富分化（比如起家的西雅图，比如后来看上的大DC地区，以及DC和巴尔的摩的对比）；也好好批判了几年前Q2的竞标是多么地信息不对称。不只是Amazon，这些超级大厂是否应该有一定的社会担当？它们和所在地到底应该如何互动？目前看来都是负面的，人嘛也是喜欢吐槽这些富可敌国且政治资本强大的公司吧… 书的话，有点杂，有些例子一开始不太明白跟主题有什么关系，虽然最后是都串起来了啦，但感觉还能写得再好一些～ (展开)
0 有用 李小饼 2022-04-22 11:14:57
故事零散，讲了很多大城市及周边人口变迁。但如果没有Amazon，人们生活可能更糟。
0 有用 freetimeboy 2024-02-29 13:05:56 上海
马太效应和大公司的刻意规划如何让美国的城市和阶级更分裂
0 有用 大雄 2023-10-23 22:08:09 上海
1.随着经济转型，许多曾辉煌过的城镇失去了它们的工业/制造业企业（或倒闭或转移或跨国经营），工作机会减少、城镇荣光不再。2.彼时随之出现的中产家庭在转型后逐渐和城镇一起没落，年迈的父母和长大后的子女们变得拮据，上演着真实的“无依之地”。3.大型互联网企业的造福之梦属于程序员，大多数人虽然享受着互联网便利，但却无法分享经济红利。4.亚马逊在仓储/物流/配送等提供了大量工作岗位，成为各城镇争抢的税收“... 1.随着经济转型，许多曾辉煌过的城镇失去了它们的工业/制造业企业（或倒闭或转移或跨国经营），工作机会减少、城镇荣光不再。2.彼时随之出现的中产家庭在转型后逐渐和城镇一起没落，年迈的父母和长大后的子女们变得拮据，上演着真实的“无依之地”。3.大型互联网企业的造福之梦属于程序员，大多数人虽然享受着互联网便利，但却无法分享经济红利。4.亚马逊在仓储/物流/配送等提供了大量工作岗位，成为各城镇争抢的税收“金主”，但低廉的时薪却无法帮助本地居民摆脱经济困境。5.记者用文字讲了太多故事，但却没有勾连出具体的洞见。 (展开)
0 有用 hanena 2023-11-06 02:34:37 美国
泛泛而谈的畅销书。
0 有用 freetimeboy 2024-02-29 13:05:56 上海
马太效应和大公司的刻意规划如何让美国的城市和阶级更分裂
0 有用 hanena 2023-11-06 02:34:37 美国
泛泛而谈的畅销书。
0 有用 钚Janus 2023-10-28 09:22:29 美国
通篇都在说losing，而没有winning。其实winning的应该就是消费者和亚马逊本身。然而消费者哪里都是，所以获益者众。列举的都是对“血汗工厂”的批判。亚马逊如何让包括百货公司以内的brick and mortar store各种倒闭，对员工各种压榨安全措施不到位，过分拔高当地的COL迫使原住民流离失所。公司享受各种当地政府的优惠政策。贝索斯赚得盆满钵满。公司做得太大确实容易招恨。
0 有用 大雄 2023-10-23 22:08:09 上海
1.随着经济转型，许多曾辉煌过的城镇失去了它们的工业/制造业企业（或倒闭或转移或跨国经营），工作机会减少、城镇荣光不再。2.彼时随之出现的中产家庭在转型后逐渐和城镇一起没落，年迈的父母和长大后的子女们变得拮据，上演着真实的“无依之地”。3.大型互联网企业的造福之梦属于程序员，大多数人虽然享受着互联网便利，但却无法分享经济红利。4.亚马逊在仓储/物流/配送等提供了大量工作岗位，成为各城镇争抢的税收“... 1.随着经济转型，许多曾辉煌过的城镇失去了它们的工业/制造业企业（或倒闭或转移或跨国经营），工作机会减少、城镇荣光不再。2.彼时随之出现的中产家庭在转型后逐渐和城镇一起没落，年迈的父母和长大后的子女们变得拮据，上演着真实的“无依之地”。3.大型互联网企业的造福之梦属于程序员，大多数人虽然享受着互联网便利，但却无法分享经济红利。4.亚马逊在仓储/物流/配送等提供了大量工作岗位，成为各城镇争抢的税收“金主”，但低廉的时薪却无法帮助本地居民摆脱经济困境。5.记者用文字讲了太多故事，但却没有勾连出具体的洞见。 (展开)
0 有用 某然 2023-09-06 13:09:09 美国
跟《下沉年代》说不出的相似哈哈哈哈……总的来说是通过各个阶层人物身上经历的变迁展示亚马逊和相关产业的崛起/集中/引发的后果，马太效应拉满。这本里探讨的地域间不平等加剧跟前两天看的低利率问题倒是有些可以综合思考的地方。（一个有趣的点是作者字里行间对DC/NoVA的了解，（甚至点名了我以前的公寓）一查果然在WaPo干过（还在Baltimore干过难怪也那么熟