Re: China as a high tech source

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anthony's two stories make an interesting juxtaposition.  The beds used for 24 hours
suggest a mind-boggling degree of poverty for "industrial" workers, perhaps giving a hint
why we get stories of workers migrating back to the farms.  This arrangement would not seem
to be a symptom of an emerging economic superpower, but of a repressive low-wage processing
platform.

I assume that the high-wage Indian workers are doing more high-tech work, or the operation
might have migrated to China rather than Romania.

Anthony seems to be indicating that we might do well not to think of China as a single
country or even a single economy, but as a phenomenon of combined an uneven development.
Even so, I would still be fascinated to understand even vaguely the concept of China.


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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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