Fast Boat to China: High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai - Softcover

"Highly readable. . . . With his clear ideas about fair trade and internationalized labor rights, [Ross] lays out concrete alternatives to the common wisdom that globalization is unstoppable."
--Time Out New York

"A fresh look at exactly what we should be making of . . . the increasing number of U.S. and European companies that are relocating their factories and work force in China."
--The Asian Review of Books

"A skeptical take on pro-China boosterism, gained through the same participant-observer techniques the author brought to his Celebration Chronicles."
--The Atlantic Monthly

"Engaging. . . . A compelling ground-level perspective."
--The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

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. Reprint.