Driven Abroad: The Outsourcing of America

It’s easy to talk about exporting American jobs in the abstract, from a comfortable distance. In this groundbreaking book, reporter Ron French has gone inside factories in four nations to achieve something new, unique and far more challenging. Accompanied by a news photographer, he followed the manufacturing of a single automotive component through downsizings, plant closings and outsourcing around the globe. From Michigan to Mexico to Honduras to China, his book not only investigates the economic factors that push production overseas but goes on to examine the human side of labor globalization through intimate profiles of individual workers in all four countries.