Where Underpants Come from - Joe Bennett

Where Underpants Come from

From Checkout to Cotton Field-Travels Through the New China and into the New Global Economy

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Buch | Softcover
253 Seiten
2011
Overlook Press (Verlag)
978-1-59020-336-1 (ISBN)
14,85 inkl. MwSt
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Funny, wise and insightful, it is a wonderful and timely picture of the developed world’s dependence on China to make all the bits and pieces of our lives— everything from toothbrushes to overhead projectors and artificial kidneys.
When Joe Bennett bought a six-pack of underwear in his local supermarket for $5.60, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how is the underwear made? And who decides on the absorbent qualities of the gusset?Joe embarks on an odyssey to the new factory of the world, China, to trace his underwear back to their source. Along the way he discovers the extraordinarily balanced and intricate web of contacts and exchanges that makes global trade possible.

Joe Bennett was educated at Brighton College and Cambridge University. After teaching English in a variety of countries he became a newspaper columnist and a writer of travel books.

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 146 x 222 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Reiseführer Asien China
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 1-59020-336-4 / 1590203364
ISBN-13 978-1-59020-336-1 / 9781590203361
Zustand Neuware
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