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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by thwest on Saturday December 08, 2012 @01:24PM (#4892276)
Are they bringing back health care, pensions, and a 40 hour work week with them?
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by twelvechairs on Saturday December 08, 2012 @04:28PM (#4892755)
This is to the point. To me its interesting as an outsider (Australian/European) to see arguments over social welfare and working conditions happening between America (which generally prides itself on being 'not like those socialists in Europe/Canada/etc.') and China (still officially Communist).
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by facorreia on Saturday December 08, 2012 @11:39AM (#4891941)
That would be an interesting twist: made in U.S.A. by a Chinese company.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by stcredzero on Saturday December 08, 2012 @01:07PM (#4892217)
> That would be an interesting twist: made in U.S.A. by a Chinese company.

Much of the modern quality driven industrial culture of Japan came from ideas born in the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

The whole history of the world and of technology is one interesting twist after another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by jasonjei on Saturday December 08, 2012 @01:02PM (#4892205)
Technically speaking (and not trying to nitpick), it would be a Taiwanese company (the ROC as distinct from the PRC), but yes, I definitely do see the irony.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by facorreia on Saturday December 08, 2012 @04:52PM (#4892820)
Point taken; I was thinking of it as a Chinese company because of their high-profile plants in China but it is actually Taiwanese.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by kmfrk on Saturday December 08, 2012 @12:26PM (#4892097)
I think The Atlantic's term "insourcing" seems pretty apt in this context.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by clicks on Saturday December 08, 2012 @07:09PM (#4893226)
Sorry if I'm missing something but... how do you scroll down that page? The scroll bar seems to have been disabled for goodness-knows-what-reason. I'm having to just scroll down by scrolling all the text and maneuvering my way down... but that hardly seems like an elegant and proper way to scroll down.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by iProject on Saturday December 08, 2012 @07:47PM (#4893311)
In what browser. There's scroll bar in Safari 6/Mac. And Safari’s "Reader" feature also seems to scroll it properly.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by clicks on Saturday December 08, 2012 @09:22PM (#4893517)
In Chrome.

But I seem to have gotten it now by messing around with the page. Here, a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DirT2.jpg (yes, I do browse the web with pages enlarged -- 1080p on a 15" laptop results in text being too small for my eyes to comfortably read)

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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by chnx on Saturday December 08, 2012 @08:55PM (#4893468)
I also can't see the scrollbar or scroll the page with OS X 10.7.5 and Google Chrome 23.0.1271.95. It works in Safari and Firefox.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by ForFreedom on Saturday December 08, 2012 @03:41PM (#4892624)
Everyone was happy with 'Made in China' or 'Assembled in China' This is nothing but moving out from China.
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Re:Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in ... by redthrowaway on Saturday December 08, 2012 @02:14PM (#4892403)
I'm sure the Waltons would appreciate no longer being the poster children for employee mistreatment.
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