Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
by kbenson on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:07PM
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I thought textile production had long since shifted to another location, multiple times. Isn't textiles what is generally used to bootstrap the rest of manufacturing, but the margins get too thin as you increase your national standard of living through competition in the local market, so textiles moves to the next country that's trying to bootstrap their poor economy?
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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
by ChrisBland on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:20PM
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Before I did IT, I used to work in that industry. Most of the high labor stuff has moved cheaper, vietnam, sri lanka, cambodia. Things like embellishments, excess decorations, that all left china. However if you are doing run of the mill stuff, china is still great to work in. The wash plants were next to the mills which were down the street from where I sourced packaging. It may have changed in the last 8-10 years, but pretty much if I needed anything done it was only 15 minutes away from whatever fty I was in at the time.
Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
by kbenson on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:45PM
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The source of most of my info on this is the Planet Money T-Shirt project[1]. On this topic specifically, I believe the episode "'Our Industry Follows Poverty': Success Threatens A T-Shirt Business"[2] was the one that covered this (but the whole series, and the podcast in general, is great)
1: http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-pr...
2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/04/247360787/our-i...