This is an eye-opening report about how the manufacturing and supply chain operations for building the iPhone (and tech products more generally) have migrated internationally. While some might argue that this article is an attack on Apple, I actually think it does a pretty good job of laying out the rationale for why so many of these jobs have been relocated out of the U.S. (and aren't coming back). Most of us probably realize at a very superficial level what's involved when our tech products say "made in China," but this article does an amazing job of casting some light on how that really comes to be. The implications of this transition for the global economy and workers has been profound, and that is also a focal point of this piece (especially as it pertains to the middle class in the U.S.).
"How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work" by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher
Published in the New York Times, January 21, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all
Eric
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