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The Future Of Foxconn: The Birds (crunchgear?)
At first I thought the birds in the trees at the Foxconn's largest plant in
Shenzhen, China were fake. They sang so sweetly that I was sure my hosts had
planted speakers for my benefit - a sort of Potemkin aviary high in the
branches. The plant, called Foxconn City, is one of Foxconn's 26 major and
minor factories around the world. Built by founder Terry Gou in 1974, the City
was the first of the many sprawling Foxconn complexes and covers three square
kilometers. It is home to over 400,000 workers, many of whom live in
university-style dorms on the Foxconn campus. It is reported to be China's
largest private employer and holds a place in the Western mind as the home to
a new form of economic slavery, an eternal bogeyman that haunts the fever
dreams of anti-techophiles. It's also a place where thousands of young
employees - some completing their degrees while they work through school,
others simply trying to escape the grinding poverty of their home districts,
and still others hoping for a leg up in China's wild economy - come to
assemble the items that surround us. Here they ...
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Shane $3.62 Consciously crafted by director George Stevens as a piece of American mythmaking, Shane is on nearly everyone's shortlist of great movie Westerns. A buckskin knight, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into the middle of a range war between farmers and cattlemen, quickly siding with the "sod-busters." While helping a kindly farmer (Van Heflin), Shane falls platonically in love with the man's wife (Jean Arthur... |
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Road Trips: Vol. 3, No. 3: Fillmore East 5.15.70 $32.47 Disc 1: 1. Don't Ease Me In 2. I Know You Rider 3. Ain't It Crazy (The Rub) 4. Long Black Limousine 5. New Speedway Boogie 6. Casey Jones 7. St. Stephen> 8. That's It For The Other One> I. Cryptical Envelopment II. Drums III. The Other One IV Cryptical Envelopment 9. Cosmic Charlie 10. New Minglewood Blues. Disc 2: 1. Deep Elm Blues 2. The Ballad of Casey Jones 3. Silver Threads And Golden Needle... |
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Road Trips: Vol. 2, No. 3 - Wall of Sound (2 CD) $30.98 Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the spectacular Wall of Sound, we invite you on a sonic excursion into back-to-back shows from June of '74. Propelled by the heart-thumping power of the Wall, these shows capture the band during a period of heightened intensity and brilliant musicianship. Disc one finds the Wall of Sound towering over the State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa for a Thursday, Jun... |
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Road Trips, Vol. 4 No. 1: Big Rock Pow Wow '69 (3CD) $36.99 The popular Road Trips series begins its fourth big year with just the second release from the 1960s, and Vol. 4, No. 1 is a certifiably great one: Two complete performances from the Big Rock Pow Wow festival on the Seminole Indian reservation in Hollywood, Florida, May 23 and 24, 1969. If you dig '69 Dead--and let's face it, who doesn't?--then these two sets, spread across three discs, will be ri... |
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans $22.97 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, begin... |
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Grateful Dead Scrapbook (Limited Edition Deluxe Boxed Set) $119.00 You only thought you knew everything there is to know about the Dead. The Grateful Dead Scrapbook, helmed by veteran rock writer Ben-Fong Torres, takes you on a guided tour through the Grateful Dead's entire musical career. The beautifully designed 64-page hardcover album includes never-before-published photos, removable reproductions and interactive features like backstage passes, fold-out psyche... |
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