A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy

By: Sara Bongiorni

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Synopsis: Can an American family live without Chinese-made goods? &“A wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet&’s fastest-growing economy.&” —Bloomberg News &“Journalist Bongiorni, on a post-Christmas day mired deep in plastic toys and electronics equipment, makes up her mind to live for a year without buying any products made in China, a decision spurred less by notions of idealism or fair trade—though she does note troubling statistics on job loss and trade deficits—than simply &‘to see if it can be done.&’ In this more personal vein, Bongiorni tells often funny, occasionally humiliating stories centering around her difficulty procuring sneakers, sunglasses, DVD players and toys for two young children and a skeptical husband . . . Bongiorni is a graceful, self-deprecating writer, and her comic adventures in self-imposed inconvenience cast an interesting sideways glance at the personal effects of globalism.&” —Publishers Weekly

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 256 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781118039175
Related ISBNs:: 9780470379202
Publisher:: Wiley
Date of Addition:: 06/13/24
Copyrighted By:: Sara Bongiorni.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.