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Business

The Amazon That Customers Don't See

Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.

Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise, Grace Ashford New York Times Jun 2021 50min Permalink

Business

Hard Bargain

How Amazon turned a generation against labor.

Daniel Brook Harper's Jul 2021 25min Permalink

Tech

Bias, Disrespect, and Demotions

Black employees say Amazon has a race problem.

Jason Del Rey Recode Feb 2021 30min Permalink

Business

Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening

Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant’s hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.

Erika Hayasaki New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 25min Permalink

Business

The Real Cost of Amazon

“It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar.”

Shirin Ghaffary, Jason Del Rey Recode Jun 2020 30min Permalink

Business

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

Reporting undercover from inside the online-shipping industry.

Gabriel Mac Mother Jones Feb 2012 30min Permalink

Business

The Hate Store

How Amazon’s self-publishing arm became a haven for white supremacists.

Ava Kofman, Francis Tseng, Moira Weigel ProPublica Apr 2020 20min Permalink

Business Tech

All Your Favorite Brands, From BSTOEM to ZGGCD

On the pseudo-brands of Amazon.

John Herrman New York Times Feb 2020 15min Permalink

Business Tech

Behind the Smiles

Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.

Will Evans Reveal Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Business

The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere

How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain.

Josh Dzieza The Verge Nov 2019 15min Permalink

Crime Tech

The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This

When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.

Lauren Smiley The Atlantic Nov 2019 35min Permalink

Science World

Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest

Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.

Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Nov 2019 35min Permalink

Business

The Cost of Next-Day Delivery

How Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.

Caroline O'Donovan, Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Aug 2019 35min Permalink

Best Article Tech

Road-Tripping With the Amazon Nomads

They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.

Josh Dzieza The Verge Jul 2019 15min Permalink

Tech

I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life.

It was Hell.

Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Business

Prime and Punishment

Sabotage and dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace.

Josh Dzieza The Verge Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Best Article Business

A Business With No End

Inside the maze of an Amazon scam storefront empire.

Jenny Odell New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Bad Romance

How a cabal of authors profited by gaming Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited algorithm.

Sarah Jeong The Verge Jul 2018 25min Permalink

Business

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

Amazon, America’s most valuable retailer, is “conducting a little-known experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable.”

Jody Kantor, David Straitfeld New York Times Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Arts Business

The War of the Words

A history of the war between Amazon and the book industry.

Keith Gessen Vanity Fair Dec 2014 30min Permalink

Business Tech

This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You

What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.

Tim Rogers D Magazine Jun 2014 15min Permalink

Business

The Secrets of Bezos

What it’s like to work for, compete against, and find out you’re the biological father of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. An excerpt from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

Brad Stone Businessweek Oct 2013 30min Permalink

World

Return to the Rainforest

The son of an American anthropologist returns to the Amazon to reunite with his mother, an indigenous tribeswoman.

William Kremer BBC News Magazine Aug 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Music

The Cult of Amazon

The “blood sport” of classical music reviews.

John Fram Pacific Standard Jul 2013 15min Permalink

Business

Amazon Unpacked

Thousands of new warehouse jobs were supposed to help lift a struggling British economy. Instead, employees started equating the work with “being in a slave camp.”

Sarah O'Connor The Financial Times Feb 2013 Permalink

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