Eh. Industrial China isn’t so hard up for labor that it needs 7 year olds running around very expensive equipment. More likely its a 20-30 year old working a 996 in a factory half-owned by an American investor.
You’re more likely to find child labor way out on the pre-industrialized western fringe, where kids working the farm alongside their parents is closer to a matter of survival. And the Chinese government has been discouraging that, both by building schools and expanding industrial agriculture capital that makes child labor redundant.
Ironically, the US has been moving in the other direction. So maybe we’ll live to see the day when all the cheap kitche crap littered through our homes is Made In America again.
Every consumer good in this picture has “Made In China” stamped on it.
And was built in a factory staffed by 7-10 year olds.
Eh. Industrial China isn’t so hard up for labor that it needs 7 year olds running around very expensive equipment. More likely its a 20-30 year old working a 996 in a factory half-owned by an American investor.
You’re more likely to find child labor way out on the pre-industrialized western fringe, where kids working the farm alongside their parents is closer to a matter of survival. And the Chinese government has been discouraging that, both by building schools and expanding industrial agriculture capital that makes child labor redundant.
Ironically, the US has been moving in the other direction. So maybe we’ll live to see the day when all the cheap kitche crap littered through our homes is Made In America again.
Well, I guess most of that is good to hear.
And yeah, the US has been lurching towards child labor a concerning amount lately.
And not a single one has “Made in Africa”.
Africa isn’t a country
Made in EU is a thing and EU isn’t a country either.
That was a marketing gimmick, not a labeling mandate.