Or found one who'd work cheap enough".
They work hard and they work cheap, allowing many middle-class people in Southern California to have a lifestyle they couldn't otherwise afford.
As Japanese manufacturers develop China as a market as well as a manufacturing site, many are setting up design centers too, and not just because Chinese engineers work cheap.
Hollywood studios facing their own financial pressures have stopped paying top dollar for midlevel stars, betting instead either on bankable names or on relative unknowns willing to work cheap.
She wasn't beautiful or well known, but she knew the ropes and would "work cheap"."Well, like the ingénue in a corny movie, there I was: the patient and long overlooked understudy," writes Ms Walters in her candid new memoir, "Audition".
Back then, multinational corporations had barely begun the business — now commonplace — of buying up fashion houses, draining the artistic spark from the endeavor, producing the garments in far-flung outposts where people work cheap, and then offering it all up for sale like Comet or corn flakes.
