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008 210521s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 _a2021018564
020 _a9780062987952
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_b.M567 2021
099 _a388.044 MIM
100 1 _aMims, Christopher,
245 1 0 _aArriving today :
_bfrom factory to front door--why everything has changed about how and what we buy /
_cChristopher Mims.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bHarper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
_c[2021]
300 _aviii, 325 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index.
505 0 _aThe gathering storm -- The box -- Ships and other cyborgs -- Coming to America -- Parallel parking 1,200 feet of ship -- Longshoremen against the machine -- The largest robots on earth -- The little-known, rarely understood organizing principle of modern work -- How a management philosophy became our way of life -- Rime of the long-haul trucker -- 100 percent of everything -- How "Hitler's highway" became America's circulatory system -- The future of trucking -- What actually happens inside Amazon's warehouses -- The unbearable complexity of robotic warehousing -- Bezosism -- From Japan with love: origins of the Amazon way -- How warehouse work injures -- Amazon's employee-lite endgame -- The middle mile -- The future of delivery -- The last mile.
520 _a"A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to robots lurking in Amazon's "dark warehouses," here is an eye-opening investigation of the way online commerce is reshaping the globe, rewriting the rules of business, and redefining consumer expectations"--
_cProvided by publisher.
610 2 0 _aAmazon.com (Firm)
650 0 _aBusiness logistics.
650 0 _aDelivery of goods,
650 0 _aElectronic commerce.
650 0 _aShipment of goods.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aMims, Christopher.
_tArriving today
_dNew York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
_z9780062987969
_w(DLC) 2021018565.
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