短短二十余年间，亚马逊崛起为全球最大的互联网公司、美国第二大私营雇主，其负责仓储和运输的“履单中心”散布全世界，重塑了人们的生活方式。

　　在长达十年的调查中，美国资深记者亚历克·麦吉利斯见证了这家曾代表技术进步的公司，如何发展成架空国家的资本巨兽。它带来“一键下单”的便利，也引起一系列连锁反应：实体经济持续衰退，传统社区纷纷凋敝；在垄断的挤压下，中小型零售商苟延残喘；劳工被困在高压的效率系统中，失去作为劳动者的尊严。

　　以亚马逊为透镜，亚历克·麦吉利斯捕捉了科技寡头阴影下的众生相，展现了一个在地理与阶层上被资本分裂的美国。通过全景的俯瞰视角，本书也展现电商行业的上下游，从产业工人到普通买家，无一不陷入监控资本主义的奴役陷阱——

　　我们活在无所不有的时代，却陷入一无所有的生活；我们一键得到三十分钟后的外卖、次日送达的数码产品、七天无理由退货的便利，却失去劳动的尊严、选择的自由、公共参与的权利，以及曾经存在于附近的连结和人情。

　　作者简介

　　亚历克·麦吉利斯（Alec MacGillis）

　　美国知名作家、记者。曾任职于《华盛顿邮报》《巴尔的摩太阳报》《新共和》，作品常见于《纽约客》《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报》，现为知名新闻调查网站ProPublica资深记者。

　　麦吉利斯被誉为“美国最优秀的记者之一”，曾入围普利策突发新闻报道奖，并获得罗宾·托纳奖最佳政治报导（Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting）、乔治·波尔克新闻奖（George Polk Award）等重要奖项。

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　　曾楚媛

　　北京大学国际关系学院博士生，毕业于加州大学圣迭戈分校和伦敦政治经济学院，现任北京大学国际战略研究院研究助理、《国际战略评论》编辑。已出版译作《剧变》。

In just over two decades, Amazon has risen to become the world's largest Internet company, the second-largest private employer in the United States, and its "fulfillment centers" for warehousing and transportation have spread around the world and reshaped the way people live.

In a decade-long investigation, veteran US journalist Alec McGillis has witnessed how the company, once a symbol of technological progress, has grown into a capital monster that has defied the state. It brings the convenience of "one-click order", but also causes a series of chain reactions: the real economy continues to decline, and traditional communities have been withered; Squeezed by monopolies, small and medium-sized retailers are struggling; Workers are trapped in a high-pressure efficiency system and lose their dignity as workers.

Using Amazon as a lens, Alec McGillis captures people in the shadow of a tech oligarchy, showing an America divided geographically and classically by capital. Through a panoramic view, the book also shows that the upstream and downstream of the e-commerce industry, from industrial workers to ordinary buyers, are all caught in the slave trap of surveillance capitalism

We live in a time when we have everything, but we are trapped in a life of nothing; We get 30-minute takeout at the click of a button, next-day delivery of digital products, the convenience of seven-day returns for no reason, but lose the dignity of labor, the freedom of choice, the right to public participation, and the connections and human feelings that once existed in the neighborhood.

About the author

Alec MacGillis

Famous American writer and journalist. He has worked for The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The New Republic, and has written frequently for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He is now a senior reporter at ProPublica, a well-known investigative news website.

McGillis has been hailed as "one of America's finest journalists," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, He has won the Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting and the George Polk Award for Journalism.

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Zeng Chuyuan

Graduated from the University of California, San Diego and the London School of Economics and Political Science, he is currently a research assistant at the School of International Strategy of Peking University and an editor of International Strategy Review. It has been translated as Upheaval.