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Peg -- a little back-story Rachel covers early in that segment -- in 2001, under pricing pressure from its buyers, in particular Toys-R-Us (later acquired by among others Bain), Ohio Art moved its production of the Etch-A-Sketch to China -- from the Ohio location where the workers made about $9/hour, to a China plant where the workers made 24 cents/hour, had to work 84-hour weeks, and went on strike for more protein in their food allotment -- from her links for the segment:

Ruse in Toyland: Chinese Workers' Hidden Woe
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/world/ruse-in-toyland-chinese-workers-hidden-woe.html?pagewanted=all

Group to buy Toys 'R' Us for $6.6B
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/17/news/fortune500/toysrus/index.htm