TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bongiorni, Sara
TI  - A year without made in China: one family's true life adventure in the global economy 
SN  - 9780470116135
U1  - 382.60951 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - John Wiley and Sons, INC.
KW  - Exports - China
KW  - Boycotts - United States - Case studies
KW  - Consumers - United States - Attitudes
KW  - Globalization - Economic aspects - United States
N2  - 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. With little insight into global economics or China's manufacturing practices, readers may question the point of singling out China when cheap, sweatshop-produced products from other countries are fair game. Still, 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, even if it doesn't easily connect to the bigger picture
ER  -