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A lot of attention has gone into making cars and factories more efficient since the first global energy shocks of the 1970’s.
Moreover, foreign investment in emerging markets shifted after 1994 to factories, real estate, service industries, and so forth.
Shuttered factories serve as highly visible, totemic warnings against open borders.
Yet the tens of thousands of workers that pencil factories in China employ would most likely have remained poor farmers if the government had not given market forces a nudge to get the industry off the ground.
The Netherlands seems to be undergoing a sort of industrial revolution in reverse, with jobs moving from factories to homes.
In 2014, the British current-affairs program Exposure found evidence of children as young as 13 working in factories (often under harsh conditions) producing clothes for retailers in the United Kingdom.
Access to factories is restricted, and most employees will not disclose their actual age in the workplace.
As part of a recent nationwide census, we collected data from thousands of mothers and girls in Bangladesh’s three industrial districts with the highest concentration of ready-made garment factories (particularly those operating outside the Export Processing Zones): Ashulia, Gazipur, and Narayanganj.
For comparison, we also carried out interviews in 58 urban areas where garment factories are not located.
Based on this evidence, it would appear that Bangladesh’s garment factories are using child labor (particularly that of young girls) more pervasively than even the most sensational media reports suggest.
Even in garment manufacturing areas, relatively better-off families rarely send their daughters to work in factories.
To help young girls avoid this choice, and to reduce the presence of minors and young girls in factories, requires greater emphasis on poverty reduction in rural areas.
In such a system, most structures would actually be built in factories.
In the 1830’s, as Douglas-Fairhust movingly demonstrates, boys and girls who came from economically vulnerable families could find themselves unschooled and working 18 hours a day in blacking factories, like the 12-year-old Dickens.
Just as the landed gentry ridiculed the new industrialists who sullied farmland with huge factories, so some industrialists ridicule today’s knowledge workers, calling them hamburger flippers.
As long as capital consisted largely of factories, heavy equipment and raw materials, there was little fear that assets could or would move, so governments held all the cards.
This is a model of what Cowen calls “cellphones instead of automobile factories.”
The invention of motor vehicles largely wiped out jobs building or operating horse-drawn carriages, but generated millions more not just in automobile factories, but also in related sectors like road construction.
Thai children toil in unventilated factories, working with glass heated to 1,500 degrees Celsius.
More generally, children who spend long hours in factories all over the world often enter their teens with permanently deformed limbs.
In India safety conditions are so neglected in many factories that numerous children have died in electrical fires and chemical explosions.
In fact, Spanish factories have boosted their productivity to such a degree that they are now taking orders away from their European competitors.
Today, factories have to be closed down all over, because usually there are too many in the same branch, and specialization is too limited.
Some 40% of British exports go to the EU market, and Britain’s factories rely heavily on goods swiftly crossing European borders, whether it be livestock from Ireland or crankshafts from Germany.
The government has taken some positive steps: the air quality around Beijing, for example, has improved considerably this winter, thanks to efforts to shut down polluting factories and replace coal with natural gas for household heating.
At the same time, Japan’s trifecta of calamities – the massive earthquake, devastating tsunami, and paralyzing nuclear disaster – have gutted consumer confidence and disrupted cross-border production chains (especially in technology and car factories).
The First Industrial Revolution moved British manufacturing from people’s homes into factories, and marked the beginning of hierarchical organization.
It is difficult to imagine India’s fourth-largest city – schools, colleges, IT companies, factories, and commercial establishments – being brought to a halt.
And yet global automakers such as Ford, Daimler, BMW, and Renault took the unprecedented decision to halt production at their local factories.
As a result, airports and bus terminals have been built on floodplains; warehouses and factories on wetlands and marshlands; and housing projects on former lakes.
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