Korean Auto Giant Hyundai Investigating Child Labor in its U.S. Supply Chain

De-globalisation can be understood as the politically popular repatriation of manufacturing, but it cannot ignore the iron law of the market which encouraged it leave in the first place - that the costs of production have to be low enough so that end products can be competitive to be sold. Re-shoring manufacturing may well mean re-shoring human rights violations in the effort to get there.