{"id":92,"date":"2011-12-20T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/?p=92"},"modified":"2015-07-23T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:24:02","slug":"workers%e2%80%99-wages-in-china-and-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/workers%e2%80%99-wages-in-china-and-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers\u2019 Wages in China and Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Author\u2019s note:\u00a0 this letter made the NYT website, but not the grown-up newspaper. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/24\/opinion\/lweb24china.html?_r=1&amp;ref=letters&amp;pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">link \u00bb<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>July 23, 2010<br \/>\n<strong>Workers\u2019 Wages in China and Bangladesh<\/strong><br \/>\nTo the Editor:<br \/>\nRe \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/17\/business\/global\/17textile.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=as%20labor%20costs%20rise%20in%20china,%20textile%20vikas%20%20bajaj&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">As Labor Costs Rise in China, Textile Jobs Shift Elsewhere<\/a>\u201d (front page, July 17):<\/p>\n<p>We are seeing the positive side of Chinese factory workers\u2019 recent revolts.<\/p>\n<p>What is now becoming clear is that Chinese workers\u2019 successful demands have given workers across the world room for hope. Bangladeshi workers are demanding higher wages, too.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladeshi employers have long kept wages down by threatening workers with loss of employment because of their competition with China. But now Chinese raises can make some room for workers\u2019 demands elsewhere, and they put some pressure on employers as well. A doubling of wages might yield 5 percent price increases here \u2014 not bad after years of price declines.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh can learn from China in this decade and the United States in the 1930s: boosting their own workers\u2019 buying power is the path to growth and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Robert J. S. Ross<br \/>\nWorcester, Mass., July 21, 2010<\/p>\n<p><em>The writer is a professor of sociology at Clark University and the author of \u201cSlaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author\u2019s note:\u00a0 this letter made the NYT website, but not the grown-up newspaper. link \u00bb July 23, 2010 Workers\u2019 Wages in China and Bangladesh To the Editor: Re \u201cAs Labor Costs Rise in China, Textile Jobs Shift Elsewhere\u201d (front page,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7115,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rjsross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}