The China price : the true cost of Chinese competitve advantage

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The China price : the true cost of Chinese competitve advantage

Title remainder

the true cost of Chinese competitve advantage

Statement of responsibility

Alexandra Harney

Creator

• Harney, Alexandra

Subject

• China -- Commerce | Social aspects
• Costs, Industrial -- Social aspects -- China
• Manufacturing industries -- Social aspects -- China

Language

eng

Summary

Journalist Alex Harney shows how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen toll in human misery and environmental damage. Despite a decade of monitoring, foreign businessmen all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods they buy are made. But change is coming. A generation of Chinese flocked from the rural interior to the coastal factories, in the largest mass migration in human history--but that migration has slowed dramatically. As pollution worsens and infrastructure buckles, and grassroots activism grows, pressures are mounting that will not dissipate without profound change. Managing the violence of that change is China's greatest challenge in the near future, and managing its impact on the world economy may be ours.--From publisher description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

337.51

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

HD9736.C62

LC item number

H37 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography