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#26 2009-04-28 04:28:31

chetmiles
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

It's the Chinese government I have most concerns about.

 

#27 2009-04-28 05:25:46

Prof Kelp
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEK0UZH4cs

These guys been talking about this for a while now, they really hit the nail on the head at 1.28 in!

See how we can get humour out of misery smile


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#28 2009-04-28 11:28:02

Chris Kavanaugh
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From: Westlake Village California
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

Tosses a Dickens novel, some Dos Passos and turn century BW photos of child labourers in the US and

UK. It would seem what is no longer tolerated in our enlightened societies is O.K. because other nations

don't have our 'values.'


" Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashion. "

G.K. Chesterton

 

#29 2009-04-28 12:22:01

Just Jim
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

 

#30 2009-04-29 12:03:18

chetmiles
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

Just pondering how long outsourcing has been going on.  Van Heusen had that license to produce G9s in Taiwan, didn't they?  When would that have been?  Heaven knows what Taiwanese working conditions would have been like; or even those in Hong Kong (BB Shetland sweaters). 
But European-made goods can be terribly shoddy - a Portugese-made Fred Perry item being a good example: piss poor stitching.  And Bass Weejuns?  Sebago?  Nordstrom?  Keds?  Nothing outside South or Central America I don't think. 
Romantic ideal it may be, but I still love those words 'MADE IN THE USA OF IMPORTED MATERIALS'.

 

#31 2009-04-30 00:47:08

Just Jim
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

And it was moving away from those seven words to chase a buck that did so much damage, IMO.

But... Business is business I guess.

Give it ten years and people will be looking back to the Golden Age of 2009 when you could still get El Salvadore made Weejuns instead of the Chinese ones which they'll have to put up with.

 

#32 2009-04-30 10:45:23

Chris Kavanaugh
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From: Westlake Village California
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

I briefly worked for a furniture and mattress company. Once  a week I made the Haj to the diaspora of furniture wholesalers and manufacturers from Ventura county out to Rancho Cucamonga and back through the bowels of LaLa land.

My favourite was  WAAAAY down Firestone BLVD past the huge apartments owned by Karen Carpenter's brother. And there, buried between a steel foundry, the freeway and a nieghborhood of tired homes and people was this furniture factory.

They proudly slapped MADE IN THE USA on every piece. Yes, I 'loved' that place: Not one of the workers spoke any english.

Last edited by Chris Kavanaugh (2009-04-30 10:46:09)


" Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashion. "

G.K. Chesterton

 

#33 2009-04-30 11:15:19

chetmiles
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

All right then.

 

#34 2021-12-16 07:00:58

A Fine Sadness
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

I enjoyed SCs postings all those years ago.  He was unafraid to open a can of worms.  Never knew who he was, though. 
This subject remains contentious.  But chetmiles has come to admire the Japanese way of doing things.

 

#35 2021-12-16 07:03:03

A Fine Sadness
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

I'd actually been doing a search for Uniqlo, following PPTs posting on his Madras cap. 
My younger daughter has bought the odd item.  I never have.

 

#36 2021-12-16 07:06:18

A Fine Sadness
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Re: Mass Produced Child Labour Gear

CK also had some interesting points to make.  I do believe this laptop has Chinese workmanship in it.  The thing I shaved with this morning certainly does. 

I'm still with FNB, however.

 

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