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Why Can’t The Supply Chain Get Rid of Abuse?

Material Handling & Logistics

In 2010, 18 workers threw themselves from the top of the Chinese company’s building, resulting in 14 deaths. In the apparel industry, just this past January, luxury fashion retailer Hugo Boss said it found cases of forced labor. The answer is eight. And it’s not just the tech industry where the abuse is happening, either. And the U.S.

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The Reshoring Initiative: 3 Reasons Why American Retailers Are Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

GlobalTranz

added 77,000 jobs in 2016, with an additional 13,000 reported for the previous six years, for a total of 338,000 manufacturing jobs reshored since 2010. apparel retailers have been reshoring for similar reasons, as evidenced by the emphasis on reshoring by participants in last year’s Texprocess Americas trade show.