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How the world ran out of everything : inside the global supply chain / by Goodman, Peter S.,author.(CARDINAL)495967;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-391) and index.Prologue: "The world has fallen apart." -- The great supply chain disruption. "Just get this made in China." : the origins of the factory floor of the world -- "Everyone is competing for a supply located in a single country." : the pandemic reveals the folly -- "No waste more terrible than overproduction." : the roots of just in time -- "The lean Taliban" : how the consulting class hijacked just in time -- "Everybody wants everything." : the epic miscalculation of global business -- "An entire new way of handling freight" : how a steel box shrunk the globe -- "Carriers are robbing shippers." : the floating cartel -- "The land of the forgotten" : how farmers got stuck on the wrong side of the water -- "I think I've heard of them." : the new sheriff on the docks -- "Everything is out of whack." : floating in purgatory -- "Crazy and dangerous" : life on the docks -- "Is it worth even getting up in the morning?" : the unremitting misery of the dray -- "Building railroads from nowhere to nowhere at public expense" : how investors looted the locomotive -- "The almighty operating ratio" : modern-day pillaging of the rails -- "Sweatshops on wheels" : the long, torturous road -- "Thank you for what you're doing to keep those grocery store shelves stocked." : how the meat industry sacrificed workers for profits -- "We do not have a free market." : how monopolists exploited the pandemic -- "We just need some diversity." : the search for factories beyond China -- "Globalization is almost dead." : bringing factory jobs home -- "Okay, Mexico, save me." : how the global supply chain turned its back on the water -- "People don't want to do those jobs." : robots and the future of shareholder gratification -- Conclusion: "A great sacrifice for you" : redrawing the false bargain."In 'How the World Ran Out of Everything,' . . . journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability. His reporting takes readers deep into the elaborate system, showcasing the triumphs and struggles of the human players who operate it--from factories in Asia and an almond grower in Northern California, to a group of striking railroad workers in Texas, to a truck driver who Goodman accompanies across hundreds of miles of the Great Plains. Through their stories, Goodman weaves a powerful argument for reforming a supply chain to become truly reliable and resilient, demanding a radical redrawing of the bargain between labor and shareholders, and deeper attention paid to how we get the things we need."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Business logistics.; Offshore outsourcing.; Industrial management.;
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Outsourced / by Jeffcoat, John,directorauthor.(DLC)no2008152811; Gorai, Tom,producer.(DLC)no2001055341; Wing, George,author.(DLC)no2005066202; Hamilton, Josh,actor.(DLC)no 97003180; Dharker, Ayesha,1977-actor.(DLC)no2001061422; Basra, Asif,actor.(DLC)no2008152812; Ocean Park Home Entertainment (Firm)(DLC)no2008152825; Shadowcatcher Entertainment (Firm)(DLC)no 00010813 ;
Music, BC Smith ; editor, Brian Berdan ; director of photography, Teodoro Maniaci.Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra, Matt Smith, Larry Pine.Todd Anderson gets the bad news from his boss, his job has been outsourced. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to train his own replacement. Sometimes getting lost is the best way to find yourself.MPAA rating: PG-13, for some sexual content.DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital, NTSC.Seattle International Film Festival, 2007: Golden Space Needle Audience Award.
Subjects: Comedy; Feature films.; Comedy films.; Offshore outsourcing; Call centers; Culture shock;
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Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local--and helped save an American town / by Macy, Beth,author.(CARDINAL)356237;
The dusty road to Dalian -- The tipoff -- The original outsourcer -- The town the Daddy Rabbits built -- Hilltop hierarchy -- The cousin company -- Company man -- Lineage and love -- Navigating the new landscape -- Sweet Ole Bob (SOB) -- The Mount Airy ploy -- The family elbow -- Schooling the Chinese -- Bird-doggin' the backwaters -- Selling the masses -- The storm before the tsunami -- Trouble in the 'Ville -- Stretching out the snake -- The Dalian dance card -- Gathering the troops -- Mr. Bassett goes to Washington -- Factory requiem -- Million-dollar backlash -- Copper wires and pink slips -- Shakedown street -- Mud turtle -- The replacements -- "Sheila, get me the Governor!" -- The Smith River twitch -- Appendix. A Virginia furniture dynasty.Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
Subjects: Bassett, John.; Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.; Furniture industry and trade; Furniture industry and trade; Offshore outsourcing.; Globalization.;
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Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town [sound recording] / by Macy, Bethauthor.(CARDINAL)356237; Kalbli, Kristinnarrator.;
Read by Kristin Kalbli.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than seven hundred Virginians and has sales of over
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Bassett, John D., III, 1937- ; Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.; Bassett Furniture Industries. ; Furniture industry and trade; Furniture industry and trade; Offshore outsourcing. ; Globalization.;
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Factory man : how one furniture maker battled offshoring, stayed local-- and helped save an American town / by Macy, Beth,author.(CARDINAL)356237;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the company suffered as the first waves of Asian competition hit, and was eventually forced to move its furniture production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry as cutthroat as it is colorful. As she shows how Bassett used legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, sheer grit, and cunning to grow the company and save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals hidden truths about modern industry in America. - provided  by publisher.
Subjects: Bassett, John D., III, 1937-; Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company.; Bassett Furniture Industries.; Furniture industry and trade; Furniture industry and trade; Offshore outsourcing.; Globalization.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The outsourcing revolution : why it makes sense and how to do it right / by Corbett, Michael F.(CARDINAL)468593;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
Subjects: Case studies.; Handbooks and manuals.; Contract system (Labor); Contracting out; Reengineering (Management);
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Fast boat to China : corporate flight and the consequences of free trade : lessons from Shanghai / by Ross, Andrew,1956-(CARDINAL)771306;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Shanghai squeeze -- Raising the bar -- The sent-up generation -- Mister Tata comes to town -- The Suzhou price -- Go west -- Cross-strait flights.Labor scholar Ross looks at offshore outsourcing to China, specifically of white-collar jobs. He reports on a workforce where employees, for the first time, are emulating a corporate mentality of job-hopping as a way of life. Ross looks as well at the effects of foreign investment on China's (newly capitalist) economy and at how multinational companies are taking advantage of Chinese nationalism in planning for their future growth there. Chinese workers, he discovered, have become as insecure as their Western counterparts. The daily reality of corporate free trade doesn't correspond to its classical definition--India and China, the world's two most populous countries, are competing for low-paying jobs and affecting the growth of white-collar jobs in Asia. Finally, China's huge gains in technology will soon allow it to compete for top-level jobs at the same time that it absorbs lower-end jobs, affecting workers and economies east and west.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Contracting out; Foreign trade and employment; Wages;
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Free trade / by Young, Mitchell.(CARDINAL)672308;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index.Experts are beginning to doubt benefits of free trade / Robert A. Senser -- Free trade has led to more and better jobs in America / Russell Roberts -- Free trade is killing American industry / Pat Buchanan -- Free trade helps working Americans / Douglas Irwin -- A free trade-oriented elite is betraying American workers / Sherrod Brown -- Export-oriented free trade brings prosperity / Jagdish Bhagwati -- Free trade has harmed developing world manufacturers / Gordon Lafer -- Trade barriers hurt American families and developing world farmers / Daniel Griswold, Stephen Slivinski, and Christopher Preble -- Nafta has hurt Mexico's farmers and laborers / Timothy Wise -- Rich countries can make trade fairer by reducing tariffs and subsidies / Martin Vander Weyer -- Fair trade organizations may hurt small-scale coffee producers / Jeremy Weber -- Free trade can lead to economic growth and environmental improvement / B. Delworth Gardner -- Free trade may be harming Mexico's environment / Kevin P. Gallagher -- Protectionist measures can masquerade as environmental concerns / Shahrukh Rafi Khan -- Free trade has improved labor conditions / Robert J. Flanagan -- The EU has shown that trade policies can also protect human rights and the environment / Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh -- Global trade is impoverishing both u.s. and developing world workers / Jim Goodman -- Offshore outsourcing is good for the American economy / Daniel W Drezner -- Offshore outsourcing hurts workers and the economy in developed countries / John Cassidy -- Offshoring of white-collar jobs is shifting the global balance of power / Ashutosh Sheshabalaya -- Strong intellectual property enforcement encourages trade and investment / Daniel J. Gervais -- Tying free trade to intellectual property rights may hinder development / Graham Dutfield -- Free trade promotes cultural diversity worldwide / Radley Balko -- Cultural protectionism can have positive outcomes / Jacques Delacroix and Julien Bornon.
Subjects: Free trade; Free trade; Free trade; Commercial policy;
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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / by Friedman, Thomas L.(CARDINAL)176021;
pt. [1]: How the world became flat. While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world: 11/9/89 (when the walls came down and the windows went up) ; 8/9/95 (when Netscape went public) ; Work flow software (let's do lunch: have your application talk to my application) ; Open-sourcing (self-organizing collaborative communities) ; Outsourcing (Y2K) ; Offshoring (when China joined the WTO) ; Supply-chaining (Wal-Mart) ; Insourcing (UPS) ; In-forming (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Web Search) ; The steroids (digital, mobile, personal, and virtual) -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting-out. -- pt. [2]: America and the flat world. America and free trade (is Ricardo still right?) -- The untouchables -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test. -- pt. [3] Developing countries and the flat world. The virgin of Guadalupe. -- pt. [4] Companies and the flat world. How companies cope. -- pt. [5] Geopolitics and the flat world. The unflat world -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention. -- Conclusion. Imagination: 11/9 versus 9/11.When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations.; Information society.; Globalization; Globalization;
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Planet India : how the fastest growing democracy is transforming America and the world / by Kamdar, Mira.(CARDINAL)704380;
Includes bibliographical references.Life on Planet India -- Indians and Americans -- India imagines the future -- Retailing India -- 600,000 villages -- The cities -- The other India -- Power -- As goes India, so goes the world."India is everywhere: on magazine covers and cinema marquees, at the gym and in the kitchen, in corporate boardrooms and on Capitol Hill. Through incisive reportage and illuminating analysis, Mira Kamdar explores Indiaʼs astonishing transformation from a developing country into a global powerhouse. She takes us inside India, reporting on the people, companies, and policies defining the new India and revealing how it will profoundly affect our future -- financially, culturally, politically. The worldʼs fastest-growing democracy, India has the youngest population on the planet, and a middle class as big as the population of the entire United States. Its market has the potential to become the worldʼs largest. As one film producer told Kamdar when they met in New York, ʺWho needs the American audience? There are only 300 million people here.ʺ Not only is India the ideal market for the next new thing, but with a highly skilled English-speaking workforce, elite educational institutions, and growing foreign investment, India is emerging as an innovator of the technology that is driving the next phase of the global economy."--From source other than the Library of CongressIncludes information on advertising, agriculture, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bombay, George W. Bush, caste, children, China, consumerism, culture, employment, energy, entertainment industry, environment, film industry, food, health system, Hindus, HIV/AIDS, immigrants from India, Indian Americans, information technology, Internet, management, Muslims, nuclear power in India, offshoring (outsourcing), Pakistan, politics, religion, retailing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, technology, terrorism and terrorists, villages, water crisis, women, etc.While India is celebrating its meteoric rise, it is also racing against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than two dollars per day, to find the sustainable energy to fuel its explosive economic growth, and to navigate international and domestic politics to ensure Indiaʼs security and its status as a global power. India is the world in microcosm: the challenges it faces are universal -- from combating terrorism, poverty, and disease to protecting the environment and creating jobs. The urgency of these challenges for India is spurring innovative solutions, which will catapult it to the top of the new world order. If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it will save us all. If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world. Mira Kamdar tells the dramatic story of a nation in the midst of redefining itself and our world. Provocative, timely, and essential, Planet India is the groundbreaking book that will convince Americans just how high the stakes are -- what there is to lose, and what there is to gain from Indiaʼs meteoric rise.
Subjects: Social change;
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