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Skriven 2009-09-22 09:29:40 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
    Kommentar till text 132 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Child labor
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Roy Witt wrote to Robert Bashe on Monday September 21 2009 at 14:28:

RW>>> China, India, S Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan aren't that
RW>>> under-developed...

RB>> I don't really think Dan was talking about electronics and high-tech
RB>> stuff, and I certainly wasn't. More about stuff requiring a lot of
RB>> labor.

RW> Building cars and farm equipment isn't exactly high-tech labor...

Indeed it is, compared to what we were talking about. No child labor there. We
were addressing products like maybe shoes, clothes, handmade carpets and the
like, stuff that requires a lot of unskilled and untrained labor.

Include stuff like cars and farm equipment and you might as well include
electronics too. But that's a different subject.

RW> Meanwhile, manual labor dudes are working with castings to sheet
RW> metal, which doesn't take much of an education if you have a shop
RW> leader to tell you what to do. Like Mexico labor, they still cast
RW> aluminum, brass and iron in sand boxes, while the developed nations
RW> use molds.

Sometimes. Sand molds are still used for larger castings and things that are
not made in large numbers. However, aluminum and brass are generally only cast
in permanent molds, as you indicate. But that's no perogative of the developed
countries. There are plenty of gravity and permanent mold casting lines around
the world. I might note I worked for a company making foundry binders and other
auxiliaries for a number of years, and translated for another in the branch for
around 25 years, so I have a fair knowledge of the industry.

RB>> For that reason, I think I'd strike at least Taiwan and South Korea
RB>> from your list.

RW> For the reasons I've stated above, I wouldn't.

Then you're talking about something entirely different than what Dan and I were
addressing.

Cheers, Bob

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