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Before I did IT, I used to work in that industry. Most of the high labor stuff has moved cheaper, vietnam, sri lanka, cambodia. Things like embellishments, exce
by ChrisBland 10y ago
Before I did IT, I used to work in that industry. Most of the high labor stuff has moved cheaper, vietnam, sri lanka, cambodia. Things like embellishments, excess decorations, that all left china. However if you are doing run of the mill stuff, china is still great to work in. The wash plants were next to the mills which were down the street from where I sourced packaging. It may have changed in the last 8-10 years, but pretty much if I needed anything done it was only 15 minutes away from whatever fty I was in at the time.
- kbenson 10y agoThe source of most of my info on this is the Planet Money T-Shirt project[1]. On this topic specifically, I believe the episode "'Our Industry Follows Poverty': Success Threatens A T-Shirt Business"[2] was the one that covered this (but the whole series, and the podcast in general, is great) 1: http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-project http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-pr... 2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/04/247360787/our-industry-follows-poverty-success-threatens-a-t-shirt-business http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/04/247360787/our-i...