So Long to the Asian #Sweatshop
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-04/so-long-to-the-asian-sweatshop
A recent report from the International Labor Organization found that more than two-thirds of Southeast Asia’s 9.2 million textile and footwear jobs are threatened by automation — including 88 percent of those in Cambodia, 86 percent in Vietnam and 64 percent in Indonesia. Whether that will be good for workers in general is debatable. But one thing is certain: The heyday of the Asian sweatshop is coming to an end.