01591nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000090007304100080008208200210009010000160011124501000012726000350022730000290026236500140029152009800030565000260128565000330131165000110134470000180135520220329142322.0220329b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a037542363x  cAloy  aeng  223a331.79bROSF  aAndrew Ross  aFast boat to China: corporate flight and the consequences of free trade:bLessons from Shanghai  aNew YorkbPantheon Booksc2006  axi,306 p.bHBc24x16 cm.  2Economics  aMost 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 informative book, he shows how the Chinese workforce has inherited many of the same worries as American workers, such as job instability, long hours, and awareness of their own expendability. He reports on the daily reality of corporate free trade and explores the growing competition between China and India. This is an eye-opening exploration of an unseen side of our globalized world.  aContracting Out China  aForeign Trade and Employment  aWages   aROSS (Andrew)