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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication date
April 4, 2006
Pages
320
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375423635
ISBN-10
037542363X
Dimensions
1.50 by 6.75 by 7.50 in.
Weight
1.42 lbs.
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$27.50
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An in-depth analysis of the controversial issue of outsourcing looks at the implications of the transfer of jobs overseas to take advantage of cheap labor, discussing the impact on dislocated employees, their communities, economic security, and the corporations themselves. 30,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Corporate outsourcing has bitterly divided advocates and critics of free trade; the transfer of jobs overseas to cheaper locations has had a profound effect on dislocated employees and their communities, and, increasingly, it is the highâskill, whiteâcollar positions that are feeling the impact.
In Fast Boat to China, Andrew Ross looks at the controversial issue of offshore outsourcing to Chinaâspecifically that of white-collar jobs at U.S. global manufacturing and high-tech companies.
Having spent a year talking with skilled local employees and their foreign managers in Taiwan, in Shanghai, and in the far west of China, Ross reports on Chinaâs workforce, where employees, for the first time, are emulating a corporate mentality of jobâhopping as a way of life. Ross looks as well at the effects of foreign investment on Chinaâs (newly capitalist) economy and at how multinational companies such as GM, GE, Philips, Lucent, IBM, and Motorola are taking advantage of Chinese nationalism in planning for their future growth there.
The author makes clear the impact of globalization on Chinese workers, who, he discovered, have become as insecure as their Western counterparts. He reports on the daily reality of corporate free trade and how it doesnât at all correspond to its classical definition . . . how India and China, the worldâs two most populous countries, are competing for lowâpaying jobs and affecting the growth of whiteâcollar jobs in Asia . . . and, finally, how Chinaâs huge gains in technology will soon allow it to compete for topâlevel jobs at the same time that it absorbs lower-end jobs, and how this will affect workers and economies in East Asia and the West.
In Fast Boat to China, Andrew Ross looks at the controversial issue of offshore outsourcing to Chinaâspecifically that of white-collar jobs at U.S. global manufacturing and high-tech companies.
Having spent a year talking with skilled local employees and their foreign managers in Taiwan, in Shanghai, and in the far west of China, Ross reports on Chinaâs workforce, where employees, for the first time, are emulating a corporate mentality of jobâhopping as a way of life. Ross looks as well at the effects of foreign investment on Chinaâs (newly capitalist) economy and at how multinational companies such as GM, GE, Philips, Lucent, IBM, and Motorola are taking advantage of Chinese nationalism in planning for their future growth there.
The author makes clear the impact of globalization on Chinese workers, who, he discovered, have become as insecure as their Western counterparts. He reports on the daily reality of corporate free trade and how it doesnât at all correspond to its classical definition . . . how India and China, the worldâs two most populous countries, are competing for lowâpaying jobs and affecting the growth of whiteâcollar jobs in Asia . . . and, finally, how Chinaâs huge gains in technology will soon allow it to compete for topâlevel jobs at the same time that it absorbs lower-end jobs, and how this will affect workers and economies in East Asia and the West.
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9780375423635 | details & prices | 320 pages | 6.75 × 7.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.42 lbs | List price $27.50
About: An in-depth analysis of the controversial issue of outsourcing looks at the implications of the transfer of jobs overseas to take advantage of cheap labor, discussing the impact on dislocated employees, their communities, economic security, and the corporations themselves.
About: An in-depth analysis of the controversial issue of outsourcing looks at the implications of the transfer of jobs overseas to take advantage of cheap labor, discussing the impact on dislocated employees, their communities, economic security, and the corporations themselves.
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