https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Outsourcing-Exploitation-to-Europe-s-Periphery https://internationalviewpoint.org/Outsourcing-Exploitation-to-Europe-s-Periphery 2019-04-06T09:42:29Z text/html en Madlen Nikolova European Union Bulgaria <p>Most people probably associate outsourcing and subcontracting, whereby a company pays another company (usually in a country where wages and labour standards are significantly lower) to produce its goods which it then resells for a profit, with the clothing and electronics factories of China and Southeast Asia. While “Made in Korea” and even “Made in Japan” were once synonymous with cheap, mass-produced goods in the West in the 1960s and 1970s, today “Made in China” or “Made in Bangladesh” stand for low wages, cheap goods, and hyper-exploitation along the global value chain. Whether basketball jerseys, DVD players, or laptop computers, the disposable consumer lifestyle prevalent across the industrialized world is made possible by externalizing production costs onto poorly paid workers in the global periphery.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV531-April-2019-" rel="directory">IV531 - April 2019</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-European-Union-+" rel="tag">European Union</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Bulgaria-+" rel="tag">Bulgaria</a>