Shopping for a pair of shoes? Chances are that nimble Chinese hands
sewed them, along with nearly 80% of the footwear purchased in the
United States. That French provincial bedroom set on the showroom floor?
It's probably part of the $4.6 billion in furniture that China shipped
to the United States last year.
Computers? Factories in Dongguan, 50 miles north of Hong Kong, produced
37% of the world's disk drives and 10% of its computer monitors last
year -- not to mention tens of millions of scanners, printers and DVD
players.
Though many of China's exports are familiar Western brands, made in
factories owned or run by foreigners, home-grown Chinese enterprises are
making refrigerators, microwave ovens and high-definition televisions
for customers worldwide
I of course always enjoy our contributions.
Why is this article called "Chinese manufacturing" when we are in transition to a new mode of production?
I am not a pinprick but the era of manufacture preceded the industrial era - or rather, epoch. The transition from manufacture to industry was the context of the Civil War in America and the energy source that drove capitalist slavery - the slave, was displaced. China is undergoing industrialization and transition to a new mode of production simultaneously.
Stating this, it must also be stated that I have ulterior motives to unfold around spring of next year concerning the evolution of what Marx called the mode of production.
Peace
Melvin P.
