Friday, December 23, 2011
Encouraging but suspicious
Via Marketplace:
Several hi-fashion clothing firms are bringing their factories back to America. But they're having trouble finding workers.
Problem: They're setting up in Los Angeles. That's the last place you'd want to rebuild the textile industry. Textile wages aren't survivable in LA, and there's no recent history of textile work.
If you truly wanted to succeed, you'd build in cotton country, South Carolina or Mississippi, where textile wages are livable and you can find plenty of older unemployed textile workers to train the young'uns.
This LA effort, though possibly sincere, smells like an intentional failure. "See? See? We really tried to make it work in America but we couldn't. Now we're going back to China." ¶ 4:56 PM
Several hi-fashion clothing firms are bringing their factories back to America. But they're having trouble finding workers.
Problem: They're setting up in Los Angeles. That's the last place you'd want to rebuild the textile industry. Textile wages aren't survivable in LA, and there's no recent history of textile work.
If you truly wanted to succeed, you'd build in cotton country, South Carolina or Mississippi, where textile wages are livable and you can find plenty of older unemployed textile workers to train the young'uns.
This LA effort, though possibly sincere, smells like an intentional failure. "See? See? We really tried to make it work in America but we couldn't. Now we're going back to China." ¶ 4:56 PM
