Archaic U.S. labor standards are turning America into the sweatshop country of choice for European manufacturers.
May 24, 2011 11:21 AM Subscribe
America: the world's sweatshop. The revelation that European manufacturers are setting up in the U.S. South due to the low labor costs is another grim signpost in the decline of American economic primacy.
Given the opportunity afforded them by lax legislation and enforcement, European companies have proven themselves just as quick to exploit workers as any others. China? Eat your heart out: the new country of choice is the United States.
Manufacturing is coming home, just as the wealth it creates is leaving.
Effective, enforceable labour standards are so far the only thing that have kept business, no matter where it is conducted, honest.
Message to the professional class: labor rights matter to everybody.
Given the opportunity afforded them by lax legislation and enforcement, European companies have proven themselves just as quick to exploit workers as any others. China? Eat your heart out: the new country of choice is the United States.
Manufacturing is coming home, just as the wealth it creates is leaving.
Effective, enforceable labour standards are so far the only thing that have kept business, no matter where it is conducted, honest.
Message to the professional class: labor rights matter to everybody.
This post was deleted for the following reason: please make this less of a polemic or, if you can not, please post it to your own blog. Thank you. -- jessamyn
America does stuff for Europe at great cost to them both financially and physically?
I am SHOCKED. SHOCKED I SAY.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 11:26 AM on May 24, 2011
I am SHOCKED. SHOCKED I SAY.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 11:26 AM on May 24, 2011
The revelation that European manufacturers are setting up in the U.S. South due to the low labor costs is another grim signpost in the decline of American economic primacy.
It's definitely a shame. Most of us can remember when the southern U.S. was a shining example of prosperity, progress and worker-friendly legislation.
posted by Mayor Curley at 11:28 AM on May 24, 2011 [8 favorites]
It's definitely a shame. Most of us can remember when the southern U.S. was a shining example of prosperity, progress and worker-friendly legislation.
posted by Mayor Curley at 11:28 AM on May 24, 2011 [8 favorites]
Manufacturing base leaves the South and it is a sign of America's decline. Manufacturing base returns to the South and it is a sign of America's decline.
posted by geoff. at 11:29 AM on May 24, 2011 [5 favorites]
posted by geoff. at 11:29 AM on May 24, 2011 [5 favorites]
So the article is right to a point, but he does kind of skim over the whole issue of the high unemployment rates in Europe. On the margins the choice is either low-paying jobs or unemployment and unlike in Europe, unemployment in the southern US doesn't pay very well.
posted by GuyZero at 11:32 AM on May 24, 2011
posted by GuyZero at 11:32 AM on May 24, 2011
Well duh, everything is a sign of decline.
Is it raining? Well, that's a sign of decline! Panic!
Wait, wait, was that a bug I just saw? Holy crap, we're all doomed! Doomed I tells ya!
posted by aramaic at 11:33 AM on May 24, 2011
Is it raining? Well, that's a sign of decline! Panic!
Wait, wait, was that a bug I just saw? Holy crap, we're all doomed! Doomed I tells ya!
posted by aramaic at 11:33 AM on May 24, 2011
"It's definitely a shame. Most of us can remember when the southern U.S. was a shining example of prosperity, progress and worker-friendly legislation."
Yeah I agree with this post: Black people shouldn't be allowed to unionize and should be paid terrible wages.
That is what you're arguing right?
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 11:34 AM on May 24, 2011
Yeah I agree with this post: Black people shouldn't be allowed to unionize and should be paid terrible wages.
That is what you're arguing right?
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 11:34 AM on May 24, 2011
Indian Call Centers Outsource Jobs To U.S. As Wages Rise At Home
posted by Trurl at 11:34 AM on May 24, 2011
posted by Trurl at 11:34 AM on May 24, 2011
That is what you're arguing right?
Stop the outsourcing of sarcasm to countries with cheaper comedians!
posted by Behemoth at 11:36 AM on May 24, 2011
Stop the outsourcing of sarcasm to countries with cheaper comedians!
posted by Behemoth at 11:36 AM on May 24, 2011
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