And they will often decide to go back to a different factory: or not to go back at all having done their few years and made their nest egg.
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As she recounted her ordeal, her husband, Jahangir Kabir, who worked in a different garment factory, buried his head in his hands and fought back tears.
"We resumed our search this morning and found the bodies lying on different floors of the factory building, " Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah of the Dhaka fire brigade told AFP news agency.
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Two sets of data released early Friday measuring Chinese manufacturing activity pointed to different trends in the local factory sector.
Throughout his teens, summer jobs took him from warehouses to factory lines at Polar's different divisions.
Nor was there a different approach taken towards a Chilean-owned pasta factory in wetlands outside Lima compared with the treatment given to two American companies in the same area.
"Every time a different brand's audit team goes into a factory, the factory has to move the fire extinguishers to be in compliance, " said Sandra Cho, corporate responsibility manager for Columbia Sportswear, which manufactures some clothing in Bangladesh.
Mr. Woo said a fight between two different work groups in a dormitory eventually spread into greater unrest at the factory.
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Foxconn said workers who agree to move to a different location are given clear timetables for when they will return to their original factory, but labor-rights groups say the company often gives only vague schedules, and many workers are forced to stay longer than they planned.
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But it seems an extraordinarily strange way to do it: when one efficient factory and supply chain can do it or the world then why have 192 different ones?
Even the car industry, which pioneered factory robots and which still accounts for some 60% of their use, now makes different models on the same assembly line.
Different sorts of low-cost robots are also emerging that do not look at all like the bulky beams of factory robots.
Mr Paterson told the BBC a factory in Luxembourg, which has been linked to the French cases, had to issue warnings to 16 different countries.
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