Look for China to implode medium term:
Signs of overheating are unmistakable: an explosion of credit; rampant
overcapacity (nine tenths of manufacturing goods are in oversupply); and
the return of inflation (2.8% in the first quarter of 2004). President Hu
Jintao, and his prime minister, Wen
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But the convicted workforce elicits as much dread as
interest. Companies flinch at the prospect of a public-relations
coco fusco wrote:
Here is some data to replace idle speculation...
Lets me define what i mean by wage before we launch too much into
positioning games. (well it seems one need to explain one's temerity to
compare the so-called incommensurables!)
Wage is a monetary equivalent of the value
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Even Mexico, where the minimum wage is not enough to
feed a family of four, is losing maquiladoras weekly to China.
Is one persons wage sufficient to maintain a family in Europe and US?
Just, curious.
My own travel in the US and Europe amongst professionals, makes it clear
that two persons
Here is some data to replace idle speculation...
Mexico has three minimum wages, which vary according to the cost of living
in different areas. In 2004 the minimum wage in Mexico City and along the
US border is 45.24 pesos (about US$4.10) per day. In smaller urban
centers, the minimum wage will
We should make an analysis of the term minimum wage, as it is not a
living wage. Minimize wage, lower labour costs and increase
production- the traditional mantra of profit...
Since we are describing wage sufficiency for the domesticity of a
European/US family vs. a family indigenous to
Dear All
Have not been able to reply to this thread for some time. Some thoughts
on what is past.
I don't think etymologies of the sort offered earlier about the word
sweatshop prove anything. Quite obviously there is nothing about the
word itself which implies a particular geographical
I doubt if China could account for 40% of world
economic growth last year by sweatshop methods alone, any more
than Britain could in Marx's day.
I'm all for discussions of labor exploitation in the global economy but it
seems to me that there is a bit of disingenuousness going on here...
I
It's funny how some threads run past their sell-by date, especially in
summer time. I know it's old-fashioned, but we can do better than
dictionaries, anecdotes and introspection. Karl Marx has a theory of
sweatshops which he lays out in a long section of Capital Volume 1 on
'absolute and
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Dan w.
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 17:11:51 -0700
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A sweatshop is a factory, usually in a developing or Third World
country and especially in Asia, where people work for a very small
wage, producing products such as clothes
Yes thank you. 'Sweatshop' seems to be an epithet of race and geography,
not an analytical category. Chinese production houses, whether in
Shenzhen or Manhattan, are always 'sweatshops'. 'White' production, on
the other hand, is rarely carried out in 'sweatshops' (although sometimes
the word is
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