Книга: Barry C. Lynn «End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation»

End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

In September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan, toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2, 500 people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas began to close. Cut off from their supplies of semiconductor chips, companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard began to shutter assembly lines and send workers home. A disaster that only a decade earlier would have been mainly local in nature almost cascaded into a grave global crisis. The quake, in an instant, illustrated just how closely connected the world had become and just how radically different are the risks we all now face. End of the Line is the first real anatomy of globalization. It is the story of how American corporations created a global production system by exploding the traditional factory and casting the pieces to dozens of points around the world. It is the story of how free trade has made American citizens come to depend on the good will of people in very different... ISBN:0767915879

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2006)

ISBN: 0767915879

Barry C. Lynn

Barry C. Lynn is an American author and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C. He has written extensively on globalization, economics, and politics for such publications ranging from The Financial Times and Forbes to Mother Jones and the Harvard Business Review. [http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=Bio&contactID=430 Barry C. Lynn Bio at New America] accessed August, 2006]

He has been a reporter for the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. Prior to joining New America in 2001, he was the executive editor of "Global Business", a monthly magazine targeted at the managers of multi-national enterprises. [http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=Bio&contactID=430 Barry C. Lynn Bio at New America] ]

Biography

Barry C. Lynn is not related to Barry W. Lynn, the religious activist.

References

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* [http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=Publications&SecID=30&contactID=430 Publications of Barry Lynn]

* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/050805/5commerce.htm U.S. News & World Report review of "End of the Line"] August, 2005.

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