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A Bra Workshop in Cambodia

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发表于 1-14-2012 12:36:59 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
Dexter Roberts, Where Made-in-China Textiles Are Emigrating; Low wages are drawing the industry to Cambodia and other countries in Southeast Asia. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Jan 16, 2012 (cover date).
http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... +-+global+economics

"Cambodia is one popular destination. So are Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; their combined share of exports to rich countries rose from 12 percent in 2004 to 17.3 percent in 2010, according to Oxford (U.K.) consultancy Clothesource Limited. They all have young people willing to work hard for less. In Cambodia, that means $76 for a 60-hour workweek. Chinese workers get from $280 in low-cost Jiangxi province to $460 in Shenzhen. That’s take-home pay in his factory for 48 hours’ work, including overtime, says [Top Form's Willie] Fung. While in 2010, China produced 43.6 percent of rich countries’ apparel imports, that number shrank to 36.8 percent in the first half of last year, estimates Clothesource.

My comment:
(a) Top Form International
http://www.topformbras.com/
(About Top Form: "In 1963 our founders Mr.  Eddie Wong and Mr.  Frank Lo entered the garment business with a handful of sewing machines in Hong Kong.  Their first customer was Top Form, a company Mr.  Wong and Mr.  Lo would go on to acquire in 1970.  At that point Top Form possessed 100 sewing machines.")
(b) The "gypsy" in the sentence "If you are very low-cost, very soon you will have to become a gypsy factory"
is a noun that means:
"not capitalized : one that resembles a Gypsy; especially : WANDER"
www.m-w.com
(c) Regarding "60-hour workweek" in the quotation.

Nick Wingfield and Charles Duhigg, Apple Lists Its Suppliers for 1st Time. New York Times, Jan 14, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/1 ... sq=apple&st=cse
("Apple said audits revealed that 93 supplier facilities had records indicating that over half of workers exceeded a 60-hour weekly working limit")  
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