Damn, folks are so sensitive. By transient I meant high labor turnover.
Sorry. I didn't mean they were irresponsible or sluttish or anything like
that.
Doug
Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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On Wed, 2 Mar 1994, Anthony D'Costa wrote:
> I am not sure what Doug means by "transient" teenage women. Malaysia is
> largely an Islamic nation, with other ethnic groups like the Indians and
> Chinese. By transient it implies that family structures are loose and
> women are significantly mobile. I think both of these implied
> characterizations of Malaysian society are false. While it is true that
> female wage rates are lower in South East Asia and other
> developing economies than in North America being "transient" has little
> to do with them. Capitalist development has brought about social changes
> but at the same time time strengthened indigenous movements, witness the
> Bumiputra policies in Malaysia.
>
> Anthony D'Costa
> U of Washington
>
>
> on top of that it is women are
> who are
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 1994, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Sometimes the automated prelies don't work too good.
> >
> >
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> > Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 15:16:06 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood>
> > Subject: Re: Running further with those shoes
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> > They may be a relatively small portion of overall costs, but they're the
> > easiest ones to cut. Can't cut debt service, land costs, the price of raw
> > materials, etc., by 90% the way you can by moving from a unionized
> > plant in Ontario or a non-unionized one in Tennessee to one staffed by
> > transient teenage women in Malaysia.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Left Business Observer
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> > On Wed, 2 Mar 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > If labour costs were such a small proportion of overall costs why
> > > relocate production at all?
> > >
> > > Maybe like a lot of "global goods" there's a world wide marketing price
> > > policy so the price is perhaps falling in places like German (to counteract
> > > revaluation of Mark or recession) but not in the US. I'd opt for closer
> > > scrutiny of the extent of the market and the price of running in different
> > > currency areas.
> > >
> > > I'm bored with running myself.
> > > Penny Ciancanelli
> > > Manchester
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