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7/11/2010 Shanghai— Factory workers demanding better
wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of
cheap costs that helped make southern coastal
China
the world’s factory floor.
A series of strikes over the past two months have been a rude wake-up call for the many foreign companies that depend on China’s low costs to compete overseas, from makers of Christmas trees to manufacturers of gadgets such as the iPad.
A series of strikes over the past two months have been a rude wake-up call for the many foreign companies that depend on China’s low costs to compete overseas, from makers of Christmas trees to manufacturers of gadgets such as the iPad.
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