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Arriving today : from factory to front door--why everything has changed about how and what we buy / Christopher Mims.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062987952
ISBN: 006298795X
Physical Description: viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2021]

General Note:	Durgin Collection
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The 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.