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Revision as of 16:36, 13 June 2005 by 62.253.64.15 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Companies in western countries are outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China (or other poor countries, usually in the Far-East) and creating factories there because it's cheaper to pay chinese workers compared to workers in richer western countries. Also other factors such as non-existant Health and Safety standards means that the company has nothing to fear if an employee in China has an accident, compared to what would happen if, for example, a worker in the UK had an accident at work.
Criticisms
- Sadly, the greed of most of the world's biggest profit-driven companies doing everything possible to make more money, this means that western manufacturing jobs at risk of being outsourced to China.
- Chinese workers can be abused and given hard labour (also called "Sweatshop Labour") with no fear of legal action against the company.
- Chinese-made goods are considered poor quality compared to goods manufactured in western countries such as the UK, Germany, USA, France, Italy and so on.