• superflex@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    A great example of the impacts of globalization and the race to the bottom.

    This is exactly why a major return of manufacturing to the western world is not going to happen. International corporations and the global capitalist class have trillions invested into exploiting the arbitrage trade between cheap Asian labour markets and the rich West. Labour rights, industrial hygiene, occupational health and safety are problems to be worked around, not guardrails to stay between.