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  • Interior shot of a screen  at a training centre in a London office conjures up visions of the nanny state and controlling organisations reminiscent of  George Orwell’s big brother scenario in his classic novel 1984. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Billy Astel, waiting for an interview for the position of call centre agent at the Listening Company in Richmond. Is it possible to see pre interview nerves by looking at  his body language? Possibly,  these days some interviewers are trained to examine body language as part of their interview technique.From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • The identity card of Michael M Minkevic, director of  business development at Luxoft next to his phone .From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • George Georgiev, vice president of business development, at a firm in Russia,  closing a deal perhaps but certainly focussed. His hand is clenched to a fist and his expression intent on the conversation he is having, the  telephone hands free set he is using allows him to concentrate on the job In hand . From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Meeting room at a Glaxo Smith Kline, a health care company in Brentford.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Typical office humour in a British marketing department,  Glaxo Smith Kline, Brentford. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Smoking break outside a typical Leeds office. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Office workers Jeremy Greiff takes part in an Evac Chair training exercise. Healthy and Safety is becoming an increasingly important part of dally working life. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Michael Hodgkinsons desk showing a photograph of his daughter Rosanna. Being allowed to personalise ones desk space is a pleasure not enjoyed by all workers, some offices choose to outlaw the clutter that comes with personalisation. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Chris Somers, left, Andrew Allen, second from left and colleagues take  a smoke break . This scene must be a familiar sight in car parks on industrial estate around the UK especially since smoking was banned inside public spaces. The dress code is similar for all the workers it seems to the point where it could be considered  as a self imposed uniform. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Rob Watson takes a fast food lunch In the staff break room. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Interior shot of a London office. The potted plant has become synonymous with office interiors to the point where it now a cliché. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Office worker does the lunch run, at a firm of traders in the City of London, interior. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • A sea of computer monitors at Liquid Capital, a London derivatives trading company. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • An IT support worker wrestles with a spaghetti of cables serving the computer systems  at a trading company.From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Meeting on the go at an accountancy firm in the south of England. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Chris Somers takes a fast food lunch In the staff break room. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Yasmina Kalipa, sales assistant, marketing department the Moscow Times. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Mini Library  photographed in the office of a investment manager, in London on the eighth of February 2007 shortly before the global recession. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Virushka Sewprsad age 22, call centre agent works as the sun sets, the light catching her and forming a strong shadow of her head and headset against the wall. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Working lunch in the office of a city firm. With the recession still responsible for rising unemployment workers have to be seen to be working hard. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • View on a gloomy day. Looking thorough this window in the City of  London on a rainy day, conjures up a mood suitable for the recession the UK was in at the moment, the picture was taken; the longest and deepest since the 1930s,  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • View towards the Nat West Tower and the City of London from the boardroom.From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • View towards the Nat West Tower and the City of London from the boardroom of Liquid Capital, a London derivatives trading company.From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Simon Wilkes, accountant. posing for a portrait at his office, in Southampton.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Pete Swift, head of internal audit. posing for a portrait at his office, in Southampton.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Andrew Allen shuffling paper, with a colleague whilst competing for the same photocopier, at an office in Peterborough. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Close up of office workers tie and lunch in the canteen, GKS, Brentford. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Office workers colin selby left and Partap Rai, right, waiting to take part in an Evac Chair training exercise . From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Receptionist, Agness Balch-Bart, Surrounded by the clutter of office life.From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Working lunch in the office of a city firm. With the recession still responsible for rising unemployment workers have to be seen to be working hard. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • IT workers. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Simon and  Rodger in lift posing for a portrait at his office, in Southampton.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • The paper hearts on the window  are the left overs of Valentine celebrations: a commercial festival in Britain  and elsewhere where people are persuaded to exchange tokens of love.From the series Desk Job a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Multiple microphones,  necessary for the work of a call centre. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Computer monitor belonging to Anasttasia Khaustiva, classifieds sales assistant at the Moscow Times. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Natalie Nedelko , Telemarketing operative, selling seminars in Cyprus on taxes, Moscow. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Maxine Johnston and her mother Anne Hemming are both receptionists at this large accountancy firm in the south of England.  Seeing family members working together one might ask whether we are predisposed to follow our parents professions. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Rob Watson, call centre operative. Robs individual hair suggest a life outside work that is more fun, at least maybe that is the intended impression. Office workers have little opportunity to express themselves because of the constraints of the office dress code. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Receptionists, Charlene Cassell and Tracey Cook  left taking a smoking break at their office in  Glaxo Smith Kline, Brentford. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Working lunch in the office of a city firm. With the recession still responsible for rising unemployment workers have to be seen to be working hard. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Presentation  board in the marketing department office at Glaxo Smith Kline, Brentford. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who sells almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.
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  • Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who sells almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.
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  • Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who sells almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.
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  • Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who sells almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.
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  • Open outcry  takes place on the floor at the LME on 13th of December 2006 in London.  Established for over 130 years and located in the heart of The City of London, the London Metal Exchange is the worlds premier non-ferrous metals market. Trading takes place across three trading platforms: through open-outcry trading in the ‘Ring’, through an inter-office telephone market and through LME Select, the Exchange’s electronic trading platform.
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  • A worker feeds calfs housed in kennels at Austasia's No. 3 dairy farm in Dongying, Shandong Province, China on 31 October, 2013. By the end of 2014, the pan-Asian diary group will have invested more than $US300 million in China and have around 55,000 cattle in its herd. The rapidly increasing dairy demand from China is pushing global prices higher, especially after food safety scandals have wrecked consumer confidence in local Chinese producers, spelling ample opportunity for global producers.
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  • A man drives a tractor to dump feed at Austasia's No. 3 dairy farm in Dongying, Shandong Province, China on 31 October, 2013. By the end of 2014, the pan-Asian diary group will have invested more than $US300 million in China and have around 55,000 cattle in its herd. The rapidly increasing dairy demand from China is pushing global prices higher, especially after food safety scandals have wrecked consumer confidence in local Chinese producers, spelling ample opportunity for global producers.
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  • A man herds cows to and from milking at Austasia's No. 3 dairy farm in Dongying, Shandong Province, China on 31 October, 2013. By the end of 2014, the pan-Asian diary group will have invested more than $US300 million in China and have around 55,000 cattle in its herd. The rapidly increasing dairy demand from China is pushing global prices higher, especially after food safety scandals have wrecked consumer confidence in local Chinese producers, spelling ample opportunity for global producers.
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  • Men sit and rest in front of a wall plastered with ads offering services in jewelry fabrication at the China Commodities City in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 06 March  2013. The city of Yiwu is known as one of China's largest trading centers for small merchandise and light industry, drawing buyers from around the world. Uncertain global demand, a stronger yuan currency and rising labour costs have taken their toll on Chinese exporters, but analysts believe sales could pick up modestly in 2014 due to improved demand from the United States and Europe.
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  • British businessmen Marj Cohen (center) and Ian Hunt (right) look at merchandise and chat with local traders at the CHina Commodities City in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 06 March  2013. The city of Yiwu is known as one of China's largest trading centers for small merchandise and light industry, drawing buyers from around the world. Uncertain global demand, a stronger yuan currency and rising labour costs have taken their toll on Chinese exporters, but analysts believe sales could pick up modestly in 2014 due to improved demand from the United States and Europe.
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  • Line worker Wu Xianpin folds Harry Potter Slytherin scarfves at the Yiwu Wells Knitting Products Co., Ltd factory in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 06 March  2013. The city of Yiwu is known as one of China's largest trading centers for small merchandise and light industry, drawing buyers from around the world. Uncertain global demand, a stronger yuan currency and rising labour costs have taken their toll on Chinese exporters, but analysts believe sales could pick up modestly in 2014 due to improved demand from the United States and Europe.
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  • Tea mugs left in front of a stock trading board at a securities exchange house in Shanghai, China on 30 December 2011.  China's A shares had the biggest drop in a year following the global down turn as well as monetary tightening concerns in China.
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  • Investors monitor prices and make trades at a securities exchange house in Shanghai, China on 30 December 2011.  China's A shares had the biggest drop in a year following the global down turn as well as monetary tightening concerns in China.
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  • Zhong Maojin, owner of the Blue Sky Pharmacy,takes a call in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province on 24 October, 2011. Wenzhou has seen a spate of business owners disappearing under the pressure of debt, as small and medium size businesses face increasing difficulties in securing loans, while the slow recovery of the European and U.S. economies continues to disappoint exporters.
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  • A guard peeks behind the construction drapes of a Nike store in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province on 24 October, 2011. Wenzhou has seen a spate of business owners disappearing under the pressure of debt, as small and medium size businesses face increasing difficulties in securing loans, while the slow recovery of the European and U.S. economies continues to disappoint exporters.
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  • A man stands in the projected image of a GM logo while Dan Akerson, chief executive officer of General Motors Co. ( GM), makes his presentation in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. China's auto market will grow by 13 million units in 10 years, Akerson said at a briefing.
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  • A man sits in his stall selling Christmas trees ornaments at the Yiwu International Trade City in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on Sunday, 11 September 2011.   As the trading hub for small and medium manufacturers and exporters in the Yangtze River Delta region, Yiwu faces an uncertain future as export orders decline due to the slow economic recoveries of China's two largest trading partners, Europe and the United States
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  • A man sits in his stall selling Christmas trees ornaments at the Yiwu International Trade City in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on Sunday, 11 September 2011.   As the trading hub for small and medium manufacturers and exporters in the Yangtze River Delta region, Yiwu faces an uncertain future as export orders decline due to the slow economic recoveries of China's two largest trading partners, Europe and the United States
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  • A woman sits in a stall selling Santa Claus figures at the Yiwu International Trade City in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on Sunday, 11 September 2011.  As the trading hub for small and medium manufacturers and exporters in the Yangtze River Delta region, Yiwu faces an uncertain future as export orders decline due to the slow economic recoveries of China's two largest trading partners, Europe and the United States
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  • A red carpet is rolled out in anticipation to the arrival of Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago, at Wanxiang Group's electric automobile division in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on 25 March, 2011. Wanxiang is China's largest provider of technology for electric cars.
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  • Vistors attend the Bauma 2010, a trade show for heavy machinery, in Shanghai China, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011.  China's economic boom have provided a water shed to manufacturers of heavy machinary as demand fall elsewhere.
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  • Workers make socks at the Shuangjin Knitting & Textile Co. in Zhuji, Zhuji Province, China on 01 November 2010. The rising cost of labor and raw materials along with the rising Yuan have hurt China's export oriented manufacturers.
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  • Workers make suits at a factory owned by the Baoxiniao Group on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, on 19 September, 2010. Baoxiniao is the lasrgest suit maker in China.
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  • Welders at work at the China CSSC Holdings Ltd. Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangyin, China, on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. China CSSC Holdings Ltd., the nation's biggest shipyard, sees orders surge as China's voracious appetite for commodities demands more fleets of large vessels.
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  • Workers make final preparation before launching the 57,000 dead weigh ton bulk carrier Sabina Venture into the Yangzte River at the China CSSC Holdings Ltd. Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangyin, China, on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. China CSSC Holdings Ltd., the nation's biggest shipyard, sees orders surge as China's voracious appetite for commodities demands more fleets of large vessels.
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  • Workers operate on a ship frame at the China CSSC Holdings Ltd. Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangyin, China, on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. China CSSC Holdings Ltd., the nation's biggest shipyard, sees orders surge as China's voracious appetite for commodities demands more fleets of large vessels.
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  • Workers make fluorescent light bulbs on an assembly line at a Technical Consumer Products, Inc (TCP) factory in Zhengjiang, China, on 30 August, 2010. TCP is one of the major exporters of fluorescent bulbs to the United States, which has made the bulbs the standard light source in the country.
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  • An exhibition game between Blue Stars players and a Chinese university team at a summer training camp run by Major League Baseball Wuxi, China, on 19 August, 2010.  Targeting teenagers between the ade of 12-15, the league hopes to use the camp to groom potential baseball talent in China and in the long term increase the popularity of the sport in the world's most populous country.
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  • An exhibition game between Blue Stars players and a Chinese university team at a summer training camp run by Major League Baseball Wuxi, China, on 19 August, 2010.  Targeting teenagers between the ade of 12-15, the league hopes to use the camp to groom potential baseball talent in China and in the long term increase the popularity of the sport in the world's most populous country.
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  • Under the supervision of assistant coach Charlie Iacono, players take up batting practice at a summer training camp run by Major League Baseball Wuxi, China, on 19 August, 2010.  Targeting teenagers between the ade of 12-15, the league hopes to use the camp to groom potential baseball talent in China and in the long term increase the popularity of the sport in the world's most populous country.
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  • Players raise flags at a summer training camp run by Major League Baseball Wuxi, China, on 19 August, 2010.  Targeting teenagers between the ade of 12-15, the league hopes to use the camp to groom potential baseball talent in China and in the long term increase the popularity of the sport in the world's most populous country.
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  • A seamstress is surrounded by racks of dress shirts on a production floor at a Textile Alliance Apparel factory in Qingxi Township, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on July 28, 2010. The factory supplies shirts and pants to major brands such as J Crew, Hugo Boss, Burberry, etc and produces over 300,000 shirts per day.
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  • Morning fog mixed with pollution hover over Qingxi Township, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on July 28, 2010. Like many towns in the Pearl River Delta region, Qingxi was a sleepy town surrounded by farms before economic reforms but is now the home to hundreds of factories.
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  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010.
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  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010. To the worry of China's exporters, the Chinese currency has steadily appreciated against other major world currencies abolishing its peg system to the United States Dollar.
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  • An HSBC employee counts Chinese Renminbi (RMB) notes at the bank's newly opened 100th China branch in Shanghai, China, on 09 June, 2010. To the worry of China's exporters, the Chinese currency has steadily appreciated against other major world currencies abolishing its peg system to the United States Dollar.
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  • Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Hon Hai Group and one of the richest man in Taiwan, center, is surrounded by the media at the company's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Hon Hai is the parts supplier for many hi-tech companies around the world including Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. There have been 12 suicides at the company's 300 thousand employee strong factory complex in Shenzhen so far this year. Foxconn has since moved some of its operations further inland to be closer to labor pool as well as cut costs.
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  • Employees work on the assembly line at Hon Hai Group's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Hon Hai is the parts supplier for many hi-tech companies around the world including Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. There have been 12 suicides at the company's 300 thousand employee strong factory complex in Shenzhen so far this year. Foxconn has since moved some of its operations further inland to be closer to labor pool as well as cut costs.
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  • The grieving parents and sisters of Ma Xiangqian, who fell to his death earlier this year, cry outside Hon Hai Group's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Hon Hai is the parts supplier for many hi-tech companies around the world including Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. There have been 12 suicides at the company's 300 thousand employee strong factory complex in Shenzhen so far this year. Foxconn has since moved some of its operations further inland to be closer to labor pool as well as cut costs.
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  • Staff members work at a Metro supermarket in Shanghai, China on 20 May 2010. Metro Group is the third largest retailing company in the world and currently has over forty store in China.
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  • A farmer carries a heavy load up a small hill near the Yangshan Deepwater Container Port in Shanghai, China on 25 January 2010.  Shanghai is now the world's busiest port in terms of container volume.
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  • A farmer carries a heavy load up a small hill near the Yangshan Deepwater Container Port in Shanghai, China on 25 January 2010.  Shanghai is now the world's busiest port in terms of container volume.
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  • A view of the Yangshan Deepwater Container Port in Shanghai, China on 25 January 2010.  Shanghai is now the world's busiest port in terms of container volume.
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  • Workers operate on the assembly line at the new Dongfeng Citroen factory in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on 24 November 2009.  Automakers from across the world are increasingly focusing their efforts on China, the largest auto market in the world and the only major market with prospects of high growth rate. The factory is currently producing the recently introduced C5 Sedans.
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  • Workers operate on the assembly line at the new Dongfeng Citroen factory in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on 24 November 2009.  Automakers from across the world are increasingly focusing their efforts on China, the largest auto market in the world and the only major market with prospects of high growth rate. The factory is currently producing the recently introduced C5 Sedans.
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  • Workers operate on a communications equipment assembly line at a ZTE Corporations factory in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China on 17 November 2009.  ZTE is a rapidly expanding global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions.
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  • A man walks through a parking lot, almost empty from the high demand, at the SAIC GM Wuling Automobile Co., Ltd factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China, on August 24, 2009.   The Wuling minivan, popular amongst rural folks and a product of joint venture between General Motors, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, and Liuzhou Wuling Auto, is China's best selling vehicle with over one million sold in 2008.
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  • Workers operate on the assembly line at the SAIC GM Wuling Automobile Co., Ltd factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China, on August 24, 2009.   The Wuling minivan, popular amongst rural folks and a product of joint venture between General Motors, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, and Liuzhou Wuling Auto, is China's best selling vehicle with over one million sold in 2008.
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  • A woman walks past a China Unicom advertisement in Shanghai, China on 17 August 2009.   The company said recently it is talking with Apple  about becoming an iPhone carrier but denied a report it has reached a deal and will buy 5 million handsets.
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  • Scaffolding built around a B&Q hardware store in Shanghai, China on 04 August 2009.
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  • An early morning view of Pingxiang City, a Chinese border town near Vietnam in Guangxi Province, China on 06 July 2009. Cross border trade between the two countries has skyrocketed in the past decade, and China is currently planning to build a high speed rail link between China and Singapore via Vietnam, which will certainly boost cross border commerce even more.
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  • Workers assemble strollers at a Goodbaby factory in Kunshan China, on Monday, May 04, 2009. Goodbaby is China's largest manufacturer and supplier of infants' and children's products
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  • Mothers and female relatives cheer on young girls performing on the small runway at the new Barbie flagship store in Shanghai, China on 04 April, 2009. The six story store was opened in March this year to mark the 50th birthday of Barbie. The Barbie store has become a hit in Shanghai as a place where doting mothers take their daughters, often the only child in the family, for a girls' day out..
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  • A woman tries on a pair of Barbie ear rings during the Media Sneak Preview of the new Barbie Shanghai flagship store in Shanghai, China on 20 February 2009.  The Barbie store has become a hit in Shanghai as a place where doting mothers take their daughters, often the only child in the family, for a girls' day out.
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  • Employees stand in attendance during the Media Sneak Preview of the new Barbie Shanghai flagship store in Shanghai, China on 20 February 2009.  The Barbie store has become a hit in Shanghai as a place where doting mothers take their daughters, often the only child in the family, for a girls' day out.
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  • A worker moves a garden ornament in the shape of a mushroom at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.
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  • Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who sells almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years.Workers make petroleum resin based gift items and garden ornaments at the Chuan Sen Art & Design Factory on the outskirts of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China on 04 February, 2009.  Orders at the factory, who exports almost all of their wares in North America and Europe, has declined drastically in the last two years due to the economic slowdown and western consumers' belt-tightening.
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  • Desmond Hunt, Car salesman at work, From a series of portraits of car salesmen taken in the southern states of America.
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