Book review: This book might make you feel queasy about Amazon extending its grip
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos appears to back progressive and inclusive policies — just as long as it doesn’t get in the way of profits.
MANY of us will have had this feeling at some point in our working lives: that gnawing, knotty sensation high in your stomach when you just don’t want to go to in, you don’t want to do this job, not today, maybe not ever.
It’s a testimony to the vigorous research and gut-tightening insights of Alec MacGillis’s book that I started getting that feeling just from reading about working in Amazon, the global retail behemoth that with each click leaves us all, arguably, a little less fulfilled.
