What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of a community? And what does the outcome say about the tech giant's larger impact on the world?

This week we explore the double-edged sword of the company's rapidly expanding fulfillment and distribution network, through the lens of its large footprint in Southern California's Inland Empire. We also consider the future of its workforce in the buildup to a pivotal union vote in Alabama, and growing wave of robotics and automation.

Our guest is journalist Erika Hayasaki, whose piece, “Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening", in the Feb. 21 issue of the New York Times Magazine, explores the impact of the pandemic and Amazon’s unprecedented growth on its workforce through the lens of the place where she lives, Hayasaki is a freelance writer based in Southern California who teaches in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine

 

What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of a community? And what does the outcome say about the tech giant's larger impact on the world?
This week we explore the double-edged sword of the company's rapidly expanding fulfillment and distribution network, through the lens of its large footprint in Southern California's Inland Empire. We also consider the future of its workforce in the buildup to a pivotal union vote in Alabama, and growing wave of robotics and automation.
Our guest is journalist Erika Hayasaki, whose piece, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/magazine/amazon-workers-employees-covid-19.html">&ldquo;Amazon&rsquo;s Great Labor Awakening",</a> in the Feb. 21 issue of the New York Times Magazine, explores the impact of the pandemic and Amazon&rsquo;s unprecedented growth on its workforce through the lens of the place where she lives, Hayasaki is a freelance writer based in Southern California who teaches in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine
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