Published 3 years ago

Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Amazon’s warehouse zones are “the major working-class space of suburban and exurban socialization,” writes Julian Zelizer. Zelizer: Amazon is operating as a near force of nature in working- class life. He says the company has gone on a hiring spree, adding nearly five hundred thousand people in a matter of months.

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Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

In more and more of the country Amazon acts like an employer in a company town, sucking up whole communities and shaping public goods and services to fit its profit-making needs.

3 years ago·New York, United States

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