Éditeur : PICADOR (NEW YORK)
ISBN papier: 9781250829276
Parution : 2022
Code produit : 1450670
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Sciences humaines /
Sciences sociales /
Sociologie et société
Format | Qté. disp. | Prix* | Commander |
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Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 21,60 $ Prix non-membre : 24,00 $ |
*Les prix sont en dollars canadien. Taxes et frais de livraison en sus.
**Ce produits est en rupture de stock mais sera expédié dès qu'ils sera disponible.
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. 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. 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. Alec MacGillis's Fulfillment is not another expose 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 (...)
Livre papier | 0 |
Prix membre : 38,66 $ Prix non-membre : 42,95 $ |
Éditeur : SEUIL
ISBN : 9782021480528
Parution : 2021