Thursday, October 4, 2012

Labor Innovation in the Global South



Cambodian factories have been spear-heading a revolutionary new approach to business production in which employees occasionally faint, and are subsequently rushed to a clinic where they get to prepare for work the following day. It's caught on so quickly that activists around the world are fainting in stores to advocate this sort of innovation in Western business.

But how does this approach to management function? Doesn't worker consciousness influence production capacity? Factory managers say no, that's ridiculous. Quite on the contrary, in fact, because allowing your workers to faint provides them excellent opportunities for rest and rejuvenation, a benefit workers in Western factories don't get, which is why they're all unhappy. The biggest bonus to this Unconsciousness Method is that you get to pay your workers a significantly cheaper wage thanks to the ever-present option of fainting to revitalize. Plus, you don't need to pay them when they're not conscious. Even better, especially evidenced in garment factories, is the advantage of hiring women; women faint much better than men and have astoundingly nimble fingers when they're awake. Factory managers are consistently impressed by the passion and drive shown by female workers, particularly in their adaptation to progressive management techniques like this one.

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