yonkey 's review for:

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis

3.0

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I admit that, through my own fault, I went into this book expecting it to be the type of salacious exposé on the working conditions in Amazon fulfillment centers, for which Nomadland has whet my appetite…& it wasn’t that. While very well-researched, I found it a bit all over the place—jumping from the VERY detailed rise & fall of an eastern steel town & the very personal story of a small-time office supply business owner to the housing booming in Seattle & the rise of the Washington lobby machine—with little connective tissue. That said, the individual vignettes were all interesting, even without a big a-ha moment.