The New York Times published an article with a strange and bigoted claim about Asian women and manufacturing at Apple.
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    vor 22 Tagen

    Yet for these types of jobs, nobody gets paid minimum wage, even $15/hr is probably low. What is the typical Chinese employee making for this type of work?

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      vor 21 Tagen

      Also several times the minimum wage. The minimum wage jobs are the do nothing jobs like door man.

      The fact is, the difference is in concentration. You have millions of workers in Shenzhen all in the same area doing similar jobs. It makes it easy to ask one factory to manufacture a thing and the one next door to assemble it.