Amazon and Inequality
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Alec MacGillis, award-winning ProPublica journalist and author of the new book “Fulfilment: Winning and Losing in One Click America,” explains Amazon’s role in deepening America’s regional wealth disparities. He also discusses the recent efforts to unionize some Amazon fulfillment centers and the threat that unionization poses to the company.
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| 0:40.8 | From Putin's you find audiobooks out now. From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories |
| 0:45.8 | behind the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. This season, we're talking about power |
| 0:52.0 | and the many ways that power shapes the most important |
| 0:55.1 | stories of our time. The pandemic has been profoundly difficult for so many people. But anytime |
| 1:01.8 | there's a disruptive situation, someone figures out a way to benefit. Almost no one has benefited |
| 1:08.2 | more from COVID-19 than Amazon.com. |
| 1:11.6 | The numbers are striking. |
| 1:13.6 | In 2020, the company saw a nearly 200% rise in profits, |
| 1:18.6 | and its sales rose over 30%. |
| 1:21.6 | For the first time, the company employed more than a million workers globally. |
| 1:25.6 | It can be a real challenge to understand the rise and impact of a company so big and with so much power. |
| 1:34.6 | But today we have someone here to help us. |
| 1:37.1 | Alec McGillis is an award-winning journalist who covers politics and government for ProPublica. |
| 1:42.3 | He's the author of the new book, Fulfillment, Winning and Losing in One Click America. |
| 1:48.2 | It's a book about Amazon, and it's also a book about much more than Amazon. |
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