LinkAsia
| May 31, 2013
After weeks of intense scrutiny on major international retailers' supply chains, garment workers in Cambodia are putting pressure on local builders and government officials after the roof of a shoe factory collapsed, killing two people. LinkAsia's...
Euronews
| May 16, 2013
In another disaster for an Asian country making apparel cheaply for the West, at least two people were killed when the roof of a shoe factory in Cambodia collapsed on workers. The factory outside Phnom Penh produced shoes for the Japanese brand As...
LinkAsia
| May 3, 2013
Citizens in Bangladesh are furious after the deadly collapse of a factory in Dhaka that left over 300 people dead, and many still missing. Workers and grieving family members took to the streets, demanding justice from local officials and from Wes...
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CCTV News
| Feb 27, 2013
China's recent minimum wage hike is having the unintended consequence of migrant workers choosing to stay close to home and work for just slightly less than in their far-away jobs in China's economic hubs. State-run CCTV News reports from Guangdon...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 6, 2012
The auto industry is an important part of the US state of Ohio's economy. One out of every eight working people in the midwestern state are employed by the automotive industry. Barack Obama, US president's auto industry bailout was seen as a boo...
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CCTV News
| Oct 31, 2012
The ongoing recession in the United States and Europe has driven down sales of artificial Christmas trees manufactured in China. CCTV News looks at the impact of the drop in exports on Chinese companies.
NTDTV
| Sep 24, 2012
On Sunday night, a dispute at a Foxconn factory in Taiyuan turned into a large-scale skirmish, mobilizing thousands of workers. The source of the dispute is unclear, but the Apple supplier has come under scrutiny in the past for reported harsh la...
LinkAsia
| Mar 14, 2012
The combination of the one-child policy, high cost of living, and reduced benefits have led Chinese workers to become pickier about the jobs they take. Manufacturing center Guangdong province is being hit especially hard. Broadcaster CCTV News has...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 15, 2012
There has been a lot of discussion about the political power of Egypt's ruling military, but what about its economic strength? Experts estimate that businesses run by the army account for anything between 15 and 40 percent of Egypt's economy. Now ...
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Manufacturing is the production of goods for use or sale using labor and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such finished goods may be used for manufacturing other, more complex products, such as aircraft, household appliances or automobiles, or sold to wholesalers, who in turn sell them to retailers, who then sell them to end users – the "consumers".
Manufacturing takes turns under all types of economic systems. In a free market economy, manufacturing is usually directed toward the mass production of products for sale to consumers at a profit. In a collectivist economy, manufacturing is more frequently directed by the state to supply a centrally planned economy. In mixed market economies, manufacturing occurs under some degree of government regulation.
Modern manufacturing includes all intermediate processes required for the production and integration of a product's components. Some industries, such as semiconductor and steel manufacturers use the term fabrication instead.
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