Book review: This book might make you feel queasy about Amazon extending its grip

Amazon’s astonishing success comes with many costs as outlined in Alec MacGillis’s searing portrait, writes Noel Baker
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.

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