What happens when Amazon comes to town
The e-commerce giant is expanding at a rapid pace. How might that change America?
FOR NEARLY a century Birmingham, Alabama, was synonymous with steel. The suburb of Bessemer was named after Henry Bessemer, a British inventor who transformed steelmaking. Workers moved from as far away as southern Europe to toil in the Birmingham area’s mines and factories, says Henry McKiven, a historian at the University of South Alabama.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The United States of Amazon”
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