<description>&lt;p&gt;Journalist Alec MacGillis joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, "&lt;a href= "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374159276" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America&lt;/a&gt;," which uses Amazon as a frame to explore regional inequality in the U.S. MacGillis writes that Amazon that has three types of towns: its software development-engineering towns, its data center towns and its warehouse towns. What is the impact of these broad economic forces on 'warehouse towns' like Louisville? How is blue-collar work different now than decades ago? What are the political ramifications of growing disparities between 'hyper-prosperous' places like Washington D.C. and 'left behind' places like Baltimore?  &lt;/p&gt;
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<p>Journalist Alec MacGillis joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, "<a href= "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374159276" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America</a>," which uses Amazon as a frame to explore regional inequality in the U.S. MacGillis writes that Amazon that has three types of towns: its software development-engineering towns, its data center towns and its warehouse towns. What is the impact of these broad economic forces on 'warehouse towns' like Louisville? How is blue-collar work different now than decades ago? What are the political ramifications of growing disparities between 'hyper-prosperous' places like Washington D.C. and 'left behind' places like Baltimore?  </p>


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Author Alec MacGillis on Amazon and 'winner take all' places

Author Alec MacGillis on Amazon and 'winner take all' places

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