I was in places like Northampton where somewhat different kinds of shoes were
being made - Church's brogues, Barkers, etc. Quality stuff ( I still have a
pair of Barker's wides, I bought in 1978 - still good, still a classic design,
cost me almost a week's wages then).
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On 23/04/2014, at 11:05 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:
>>> Taking photographers into factories when the British still made shoes.
>
> I lived for a while in an area where lots are now made.
>
> " Today, it is ... a major center for light industry. Nike has a
> factory there, and a Taiwanese firm that makes shoes for Adidas,
> Reebok and others has four. All are large factories, with several
> thousand employees each.
>> From https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Fuzhou
>
> No wonder neither the UK nor the US can compete, given Chinese wages.
> 2000 rmb (about $350) a month is good money for a factory worker and a
> new graduate engineer I knew was very happy with an offer of 3000.
> Even so, a friend who did health & safety stuff at the Adidas et al.
> factory in Fuzhou was sent to Vietnam to help set up a factory there;
> apparently they have even lower wages.
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