"amalgamated" is a thin disguise for "amazon"
― flagp∞st (dayo), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/01/19/fewer-more-demanding-workers-for-vietnamese-factories/#axzz1juui4rRO
Unlike China, the vast Communist neighbour to which it is often compared, Vietnam does not have large pools of migrant workers desperate for factory jobs, says Pincus:“In China, there’s still huge a migration to the coast. There are hundreds of millions of potential workers who have few options. In Vietnam, the migration is smaller, the country is smaller and for many people there are other, better options.”
sad lol
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 2 March 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2012/03/the_end_of_cheap_china_part_v_vietnam_burmamyanmar_and_the_next_big_thing-2.html
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 2 March 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/walmart-china-sustainability-shadow-factories-greenwash?page=1
― dayo, Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-03-20-now-can-we-start-talking-about-the-real-foxconn/
― iatee, Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
good post but I'm afraid that 'foxconn apologist' may be a hard label to shake
― dayo, Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/03/iphone-factories-chinese-dreams.html
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
So this Hanjin Shipping collapse is really something. Container vessels full of TVs doomed to circle port forever as their crews starve. Christmas ruined. Etc.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/billions-in-cargo-remains-stranded-at-sea-1473285117
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 September 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
The fact it is all being documented by an artist in residence is a fabulous twist.
Can't read the WSJ article but it's kind of amazing that the first major container line to go bust in thirty years did so at a time of super-low oil prices.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 9 September 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm learning a lot of things I should have already known as a result of this toothsome story.
It's surely going to impact my day job as well (though we don't ship anything with Hanjin)
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 September 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Here's a great piece about the sham of Nike's "Girl Effect" campaign vs the realities for women working in its Vietnam factories.
Chapo Trap House's interview with the author is also great.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 9 September 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
a little bit of third world in small town dayton ohio
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/business/economy/ohio-factory-jobs-china.html
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 12 June 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link