As the new markets created fortunes for the few, the factory system lowered the wages of workers by dividing labor into smaller, less skilled tasks.

由于新兴市场只给少数人创造财富，工厂体系不得不通过将劳动分割成更小的、技术含量更低的工作来降低工人们的工资。

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Workers stroll the sidewalks chatting and laughing, smoking together under trees, as amiable as any group of factory workers in the first world.

在路上闲逛的工友们有说有笑，或者聚在树荫底下抽烟，和美国同类工厂里的工人们一样，他们都让我感觉亲切。

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One of the other factory workers publicly opines that women don't need to make as much as their husbands, because men are the primary income-generators.

一个其他工厂的工人公开表示女人并不需要像她们丈夫一样努力工作。

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In the past Toyota paid its U.S. factory workers close to the same hourly rate as domestic automakers.

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Compared with booming profits, rich-country workers have lost out, as Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers and the spread of computer automation undermine bargaining power and wage growth.

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The company is one of many from the U.S. and other countries that are closely watching China as factory workers slowly return this week from the country's long Lunar New Year holiday.

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