Alexandra Harney: The China Price

Alexandra Harney, editor for Financial Times, has published The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage. [Penguin Press, March, 2008]. Harney describes the human cost of producing products on the cheap. While the consumer public may want goods produced in factories where working conditions are acceptable, it is often difficult to know whether those standards were followed. The focus of the book is Shenzhen and surrounding Guangdong Province, which is also the destination of the Webster University 2008 study tour course, "Global Issues in China."