Labor pool shifts as urban workers seek better lives

The Washington Post run a story entitled “In China’s cities, a turn from factories” by Peter S. Goodman today: “Dongguan, China – In a country with a supposedly bottomless supply of labor, the Daojiong Hequn Plastic Processing factory has somehow hit bottom. The plant in southern China can no longer find enough young women willing to spend their hours bending over machinery slicing artificial hair for toy dolls bound for the United States. ”

The full story is here. (via MSNBC)

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