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Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in U.S.A.

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Are they bringing back health care, pensions, and a 40 hour work week with them?

This is to the point. To me its interesting as an outsider (Australian/European) to see arguments over social welfare and working conditions happening between America (which generally prides itself on being 'not like those socialists in Europe/Canada/etc.') and China (still officially Communist).

That would be an interesting twist: made in U.S.A. by a Chinese company.

I think The Atlantic's term "insourcing" seems pretty apt in this context.

Technically speaking (and not trying to nitpick), it would be a Taiwanese company (the ROC as distinct from the PRC), but yes, I definitely do see the irony.

Point taken; I was thinking of it as a Chinese company because of their high-profile plants in China but it is actually Taiwanese.

> That would be an interesting twist: made in U.S.A. by a Chinese company.

Much of the modern quality driven industrial culture of Japan came from ideas born in the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

The whole history of the world and of technology is one interesting twist after another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

Sorry if I'm missing something but... how do you scroll down that page? The scroll bar seems to have been disabled for goodness-knows-what-reason. I'm having to just scroll down by scrolling all the text and maneuvering my way down... but that hardly seems like an elegant and proper way to scroll down.

In what browser. There's scroll bar in Safari 6/Mac. And Safari’s "Reader" feature also seems to scroll it properly.

I also can't see the scrollbar or scroll the page with OS X 10.7.5 and Google Chrome 23.0.1271.95. It works in Safari and Firefox.

In Chrome.

But I seem to have gotten it now by messing around with the page. Here, a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DirT2.jpg (yes, I do browse the web with pages enlarged -- 1080p on a 15" laptop results in text being too small for my eyes to comfortably read)

Everyone was happy with 'Made in China' or 'Assembled in China' This is nothing but moving out from China.

I'm sure the Waltons would appreciate no longer being the poster children for employee mistreatment.

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