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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. A report from Human Rights Watch in January found that even four years after it was learned that slaves in Asia were forced to work in this industry for years at a time under threat of extreme violence, it is still happening.

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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. Apple has traditionally been relying on a supply chain based in East Asia, using Korea to produce memory chips, Japan to produce displays and China to assemble products.