godzilla goes to school

I feel like this bears repeating: the reason that manufacturing has moved out of the US and into other, poorer countries is that labor is less expensive in those countries, because labor laws are worse. It's cheaper for companies to produce things in Bangladesh because in Bangladesh you can pay your workers less and extract longer hours from them and generally treat them worse. This means that if you're an American who has been hurt by manufacturing moving out of the US, your most important allies are labor activists in the countries to which manufacturing has moved.

“Because we’re indoctrinated into the world of waged labour from childhood – watching parents go to work each day; taking on Saturday and after-school jobs for pocket money; constantly being asked what we want to ‘be’ when we grow up and knowing instinctively it’s a question about paid work – it can seem like an inevitable and obvious feature of society. But take a step back for a moment and consider that our workplaces, where we spend one third of our lives toiling to prop up the other third not spent sleeping, can also be the places where we’re most in danger, where we’re most exploited, where we’re least in control. One of the relationships which has the most control over our lives is also one of the most fundamentally imbalanced.”