The daughter goes into a catatonic trance, the maid becomes a saint, the wife becomes sexually voracious and promiscuous, the son becomes an artist and cultural theorist ("A sign succeeds by chance – it is fragile")., and the father gives his factory away to the workers.
In an attempt to attract skilled European-immigrant workers to his plant, Colt built a village near the factory away from the tenements which he named Coltsville and modeled the homes after a village in Potsdam.
They say they'll move the factories away today tomorroww they say they'll close them.
So the local government regulators don't want to enforce a high labor standard and force the factories away.
To capitalise on their reserves of low-cost labour, some inland cities have pursued low-value manufacturing, luring factories away from the coast.
But it is edging up again (see chart 2).China's low wages, which lured factories away from Mexico, are rising rapidly.
Pollution, for instance, which shrouds Beijing in haze for many days of the year, is to be controlled by moving factories away from the city and using environmentally-friendly fuels.
As companies like Foxconn shift factories away from higher-cost production bases in China, like the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong Province, they are discovering that workers in new locations across China are not as abundant as they had expected.
Another incentive, the duty-free import regime, was due to expire at the end of last year, but the government has conceded breathing-spaces of up to a year, worried that the end of privileges will drive the factories away altogether".The maquiladoras will not grow again at the rates seen in the 1990s," predicts Mr Cruz.
The original regulations, as well as a major revision in 1961, divided the city into residential zones and manufacturing zones to keep busy warehouses and noisy, smelly factories away from homes, and set broad rules for each category in neighborhoods across the city.
It has taken the occasions of the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai World Expo, and the Guangzhou Asian Games to carry out a series of dramatic efforts in building more public transit, limiting traffic, shifting to cleaner fuels and moving polluting factories away from the city center.
