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

Material Handling & Logistics

also based in China, was found in violation of basic working conditions, as it compelled workers to stand for up to 10 hours a day in hot workshops slicing and blasting iPhone casings and handling noxious chemicals, sometimes without proper gloves or masks. In January of this year, another Apple supplier, Catcher Technology Co.,

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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

In its Atlas of Economic Complexity database, The Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for International Development in an online data base has Australia at number 93, alongside Senegal, Pakistan, and Mali, in a list of 133 countries ranked according to the complexity of their economies and opportunities available to develop new products.