Fast Boat to China: High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai
By Andrew Ross.
Description
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about the people who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have been throw into tumult by these new economic forces. Andrew Ross spent a year in China, interviewing local employees and their managers in Taiwan, Shanghai, and the far western provinces. In this engaging and infor...
ISBN(s)
1400095549, 9781400095544
