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Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa View Post
In the last 5 years, I've seen garment manufacturing run from India to go to China to now run to Vietnam in search of cheaper and cheaper labor, with significant impacts on social, economic and political issues in the leave-behind countries and the latest sweethearts.
You want a real eye-opener? Look into the Northern Mariana islands -- before and after the boom of the 80s-90s.

IHS Child Slave Labor News :: Stop Sweatshops in Mariana Islands

Opening up the US to more Chinese imports recently has diminished the abuses in the Northern Marianas. But they literally imported labor from mainland China to make goods that could be labeled "Made in USA."
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