A look at Amazon's impact on Darlington in northern England, where the company's warehouse employs 1,300 full-time, as locals rue e-commerce but love new jobs
meanwhile centuries-old pubs & markets can't find staff the pro-amazon quotations read like hostage statements. https://www.wsj.com/... Kathryn Anne Edwards / @keds_economist : Interesting read. It notes that Amazon has created “10,000 local jobs” in the UK in 2021. I'm starting to reconsider the interpretation of that statistic (number of jobs) given what we know about Amazon's turnover in the U.S. https://www.wsj.com/...
Amazon the behemoth first hollows out towns like Darlington with their e-commerce dominance, then rides in like a hero to hire up workers — meanwhile centuries-old pubs & markets can't find staff the pro-amazon quotations read like hostage statements. https://www.wsj.com/...
Interesting read. It notes that Amazon has created “10,000 local jobs” in the UK in 2021. I'm starting to reconsider the interpretation of that statistic (number of jobs) given what we know about Amazon's turnover in the U.S. https://www.wsj.com/...