A line of children work in a sweatshop whose rules are "no lunch breaks," "no bathroom breaks," and "no crying on the job." Child: It could be worse... we could be working at Amazon!
“Yue Yuen, the parent company of all the striking factories, is the largest athletic shoe manufacturer in the world, making shoes for basically every major brand athletic brand — including Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, New Balance, Asics, Puma and Converse. It operates factories in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico, and last year, the company produced a staggering 307.1 million pairs of shoes. "China is undergoing a well-documented revolution in its manufacturing market, as more mechanized manufacturing, the push for even more product more often mentioned above, rising labor costs, and competition for workers from other sectors like electronics all make waves.Instead of Apples and oranges it’s iPhones and Nikes.http://www.worldcrunch.com/business-finance/china-039-s-039-apple-city-039-assembling-iphones-in-the-urban-shadows/iphone-factory-boom-urbanization-poverty-foxconn/c2s15252/
superposition over 8 years ago
http://solecollector.com/news/chinese-sneaker-factory-strikes-nike/
“Yue Yuen, the parent company of all the striking factories, is the largest athletic shoe manufacturer in the world, making shoes for basically every major brand athletic brand — including Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, New Balance, Asics, Puma and Converse. It operates factories in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico, and last year, the company produced a staggering 307.1 million pairs of shoes. "China is undergoing a well-documented revolution in its manufacturing market, as more mechanized manufacturing, the push for even more product more often mentioned above, rising labor costs, and competition for workers from other sectors like electronics all make waves.Instead of Apples and oranges it’s iPhones and Nikes.http://www.worldcrunch.com/business-finance/china-039-s-039-apple-city-039-assembling-iphones-in-the-urban-shadows/iphone-factory-boom-urbanization-poverty-foxconn/c2s15252/
moderateisntleft over 8 years ago
yes, I’ve heard of all those secret symbols that make the rest of us un-knowing ones slave to them. Like I said, the paranoid delusions…..