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Bezig met laden... The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (editie 2008)door Alexandra Harney
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A must read for all who are concerned with global worker righrts and the true cost of cheap consumer goods. ( ) Not the book for people who want to remain ignorant and believe what they buy doesn’t matter. Especially starting with chapter 7, Harney lays out the crux of the China Price: social accountability and cost reduction are conflicting demands that American brands are almost universally (simultaneously) demanding. The book contains real insight as the author proves adept at understanding both businesses and people (a rare gem) and provides ample stories and evidences throughout the book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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