PRIME NUMBERS: "Help Wanted," by Neil M. Coe, Jennifer Johns and Kevin Ward, Foreign Policy, May-June 2008, p. 36.
Interesting map of Manpower's overseas ops. Manpower is a Milwaukee-HQ'd temp agency.
A colored map shows the basic outline of the Gap quite nicely, scrunched in a bit, suggesting the continued penetration into, and resulting shrinkage of, the Gap by globalization's networks, of which Manpower is one of bajillions.
Fascinating stuff.
Worldwide temps, daily average, rises from 4m people in 1996 to 9m in 2006. Revenue likewise triples from $105b to $301b.
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