He has other duties in connection with infant welfare clinics, crèches, day and residential nurseries, the examination of schoolchildren, child guidance clinics, foster homes, factories, problem families, and the care of the aged and the handicapped.
Outside the factory, they foster a business environment that adheres to rule by law.
But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.
It's also something that requires creativity, which isn't fostered in giant factories with guards guiding people through crowded doorways and a central kitchen that roasts three tons of pork and thirteen tons of rice a day.
First, they speed the flow of information across borders: a Chinese businessman in South Africa who sees a demand for plastic vuvuzelas will quickly inform his cousin who runs a factory in China.Second, they foster trust.
Jealously guarding what they call their "black box" will make it hard to foster loyalty and continuity in their Chinese factories.
The idea was to transform state factories into lean, modern entities; foster trade with nearby countries; and to broaden the economy by cultivating new industries, from tourism to software.Judging by growth alone, the government achieved almost instant results.
In Sydney's Rosebery neighborhood, three businesses, housed within a former canning factory, are changing that perception, fostering modern Australian craftsmanship and an appreciation of their country's casually chic aesthetic.
What if policymakers envisioned a border policy that embraced the globalization of humanity just as it has fostered the globalization of factories and corn crops?
The victims of phone hacking, where relationships were destroyed by the apparent betrayal of confidences, experienced the same kind of corruption that is inflicted on debate by the troll factories' capacity to sow mistrust and foster polarisation.
