Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maine used to make a lot of shoes. ...
> On Apr 21, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Taking photographers into factories when the British still made shoes.
I lived for a while in an area where lots are now made.
" Today, it is ... a major center for light industry. Nike has a
factory there, and a Taiwanese firm that makes shoes for Adidas,
Reebok and others has four. All are large factories, with several
thousand employees each.
>From https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Fuzhou
No wonder neither the UK nor the US can compete, given Chinese wages.
2000 rmb (about $350) a month is good money for a factory worker and a
new graduate engineer I knew was very happy with an offer of 3000.
Even so, a friend who did health & safety stuff at the Adidas et al.
factory in Fuzhou was sent to Vietnam to help set up a factory there;
apparently they have even lower wages.
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