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December 13, 2004
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Just How Cheap is Chinese Labor? Reliable data don't exist, but the U.S. government is doing some sleuthing and so far estimates Chinese factory costs at $0.64 an hour. |
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September 22, 2010 |
Thought Leader: We Need a Friend in Washington Educator and author George Haley believes U.S. government policy has been working against manufacturers for several decades. |
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June 1, 2002
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Under Fire Consumer cries for sweatshop-free products drive big-name brands to extraordinary lengths to monitor working conditions at contractor plants.... |
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May 2005
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Eastern Influence Chinese companies are becoming increasingly active in buying, merging with and doing joint ventures with smaller U.S companies -- usually in search of technology. |
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March 12, 2007
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Rumbles Over Labor Reform Beijing's proposed worker protections are giving multinationals the jitters. |
BusinessWeek
June 10, 2010
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The Rise of a Chinese Worker's Movement Spurred by the Foxconn suicides, and aided by an exploding Internet, China's labor ranks are organizing for higher wages and more rights. |
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Factory Monitoring -- Just Do It Amanda Tucker, director of business compliance project at Nike Inc., explains that it is no longer considered acceptable just to have a code of conduct. There has to be monitoring behind it. |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
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A Major Swipe At Sweatshops Nike, Patagonia, Gap, and five other companies have joined forces with six leading anti-sweatshop groups to devise a single set of labor standards with a common factory-inspection system. If a pilot project in Turkey succeeds, long-sought global labor standards could emerge. |
BusinessWeek
November 27, 2006 |
A Lion for Workers' Rights Auret van Heerden has worked for labor for 30 years. He's learned to tackle brand-name companies instead of governments to get things done. |
BusinessWeek
October 3, 2005
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A Long March For Workers The rapid growth of private enterprise in China is likely to mean longer working hours - often without overtime pay. |
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May 13, 2010
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Why Factories Are Leaving China A labor shortage is trimming margins for exporters, who are moving to Vietnam, India, and elsewhere. |
TIME Asia
June 28, 2010
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Striking Observations Labor unrest is part of life in China's factory towns, and yet there is something different about this summer's strife that will have broad implications for the global economy. We are witnessing nothing less than the beginning of the end of China's role as the sweatshop of the world. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
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Is China Running Out Of Workers? As farmers stay home, factories in China scramble for employees. It's all putting pressure on wages. |
BusinessWeek
March 27, 2006
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How Rising Wages Are Changing The Game In China A labor shortage in China has pay soaring. That is sure to send ripples around the globe. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
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Global Inflation Starts with Chinese Workers Government support and a tight labor supply are boosting wages in China. Over the next decade that will put inflationary pressure on the global economy |
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April 1, 2008
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Just In Time -- The China Misconnection For some manufacturers, it's getting too expensive to offshore their production to China. |
The Motley Fool
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Cashing In on the Rise of the Chinese Consumer Finding both foreign and domestic companies (from a Chinese perspective) that are focused on the Chinese consumer will provide healthy returns in the years and decades to come. |
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The Price of a Cheap Suit Retail and apparel companies spend millions to assess overseas suppliers. So why are they still missing so many problems? |
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Table: Global Comparisons How China's labor conditions stack up against those of other low-cost nations. |
The Motley Fool
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China Questions Big Four Auditors The Chinese government wants the big auditing firms to double-check their work. |
Fast Company
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IndustryWeek
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Manufacturers Like Us When asked to identify the focus of their market strategy, Chinese manufacturers listed "high quality" first, followed by innovation, service and support, and low cost. For U.S. manufacturers, innovation straggled in a distant seventh. |
