July 1, 2005
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Hanna Kaskinen, Louise Jamison
In a bid to keep costs down and profits high, a growing number of Western corporations have been "outsourcing" the manufacturing of their products to factories in other nations, often in Asia and the ... read more 
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June 29, 2005
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Ethical capitalism may sound like an oxymoron to some, but that concept is a linchpin of this cursory, irritatingly facile look at the human cost of globalization. Full Review
June 29, 2005
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Unintentionally funny is still funny, and the documentary A Decent Factory, which opens with a misspelled quotation from Milton Friedman, had me giggling.
June 28, 2005
Mark Peranson, Village Voice
Thomas Balmés's fly-on-the-wall documentary uses your cell phone charger as a case study in how multibillion-dollar multinationals are dealing with multihorrible working conditions in the overseas pla... Full Review
March 28, 2007
Prairie Miller, Long Island Press
Spotlights what definitely does not come with your Nokia cell phone: who assembled all those microscopic parts, in what country, and whether or not they were paid minimum wage.
July 1, 2005
Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide
This film exposes a more insidious kind of exploitation, one far more difficult to detect. Full Review
June 29, 2005
Kent Turner, Film-Forward.com
What follows during an assembly plant inspection is a more specific exposé on outsourcing in the developing world than last year's fact-filled The Corporation. Full Review
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