Many of these orders come from multinational companies, some of them American that open factories in low-wage nations.

Economist Andy Xie said that there is ample scope for increased wages in China due to its superior infrastructure as compared to competing, low-wage alternative nations.

The study concluded that dire predictions of job losses from shifting high-technology work to low-wage nations with strong education systems, like India and China, were greatly exaggerated.

He condemns "economic violence" and calls for stopping American companies from exporting jobs to low-wage nations and creating incentives for "reinvestment in America."

Other economists say that Mexican exporters are more likely to crowd out goods from low-wage nations than from the United States.

Davis believed that free-trade allowed low-wage nations, such as China to compete unfairly with American-produced manufactured goods and agricultural crops.

New technologies and the movement of some jobs to low-wage nations seem to be holding back wage and price increases.

Or will the European Community's social charter, as it's called, require the low-wage nations to improve their labor conditions?

Domestic cost-cutting programs are on target, and plants are being shifted to China and other low-wage nations.

The fear of Japan, Korea and other productive or low-wage nations is not limited to Nummi's workers.