Nov 24 2008
A recent article in The Economist helps to put the China factory closure issue in perspective. A longer-term concern is whether more expensive labour could wipe out Asia’s competitive edge. Labour costs are rising much faster than in the developed world, forcing some Chinese firms to close down. But Chinese manufacturing wages are still less …
Nov 20 2008
To read the press on plant closures in Dongguan, you would think that the city has become a sort of ghost town, with hordes of traumatically unemployed workers roving the streets like a pack of zombies (the un-severanced) seeking their last month’s paycheck from long gone bosses. Now, I work here in Dongguan, and I …
Nov 19 2008
Kevin Meyer over at the Evolving Excellence blog wants us to abandon the individual worker time standards of Taylorism (a.k.a. Scientific Management). He cites a WSJ article discussing the pro’s and cons of implementing this type of management in retail stores in the USA, and as a counter example he links to a description of …
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