Summary of Alec MacGills' Fulfillment

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Get the Summary of Alec MacGills' Fulfillment in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669344209

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

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Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

A 55-year-old man named Hector took a job at a warehouse that paid $15. 60 an hour. He was making $170,000 a year at his previous job, but was unemployed for 11 years after it was lost during the Great Recession.

#2

The company that employed Hector was called Parcel. The company shipped packages and ordered products for customers around the world. The company’s main warehouse was in Thornton, Colorado.

#3

These divides were present long before the virus, but the pandemic highlighted them even more. The upper echelons of society were largely safe, but the rest of America was not.

#4

The country had always had rich and poor areas, but the gaps were growing between them in the late twentieth century. By the middle of the twenty-first century, the divide between rich and poor had become so large that it could be seen from space.

#5

As the country continued to become more and more divided between rich and poor, it also became more and more dependent on the wealthy to keep the economy afloat.

#6

As companies grew and grew, so did the economic disparity between different regions of the country.

#7

Amazon. com had grown from a small bookstore in the mid-1990s to a massive online retailer that had changed American consumption habits. By the early 2000s, it had also become an important part of Americans’ daily lives, as it served as a window into what Americans could aspire to achieve.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

During law school, the author met a man named Milo Duke, who was a paralegal working for a large criminal defense firm in Seattle. One day, Duke joined dozens of other lawyers working on a case against the Carbone family. He quit the next day and joined the artists at Pike Place Market.

#2

Seattle was a relatively small city in the years leading up to the Ballard Locks Project. It grew rapidly during the 1880s, surpassing 40,000 inhabitants, thanks