[BCR] Fwd: Upcoming event about China that might be of interest
Xiaohui Lin
From: Andrea Buffa <andre...@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Subject: Upcoming event about China that might be of interest
To: bee...@berkeley.edu, gew...@berkeley.edu
Hello Berkeley China Review,
I wanted to let you know about this upcoming event about China featuring Financial Times Reporter Alexandra Harney. Please spread the word with people you think might like to attend. Thanks so much.
All the best,
Andrea Buffa
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
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THE CHINA PRICE: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
Thursday, April 17, Noon - 1 PM
UC Berkeley Labor Center, 2521 Channing Way (near Telegraph Ave.), Berkeley
The China Price is an eyewitness exposé about the consequences of China's ceaseless pursuit of economic growth, from unethical business practices to pollution to an epidemic of occupational diseases. Author Alexandra Harney takes readers into Chinese factories and their dormitories to show youths who have flocked from the countryside to take dangerous manufacturing jobs. She visits model factories, where rules on working hours and product safety are followed, as well as "shadow" factories where anything goes in the drive to produce cheaper products. Harney also finds stirrings of change; aided by regional labor shortages, rising wages and intrepid activists, Chinese workers are demanding—and gradually winning—more rights.
Alexandra Harney worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times from 1998 to 2007. She has been reporting on Asia for most of the past decade and currently lives in Hong Kong.
Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, Center for Chinese Studies, and others.
Information: 510-642-6371; andre...@berkeley.edu; http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu