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Book/Book Chapter 
Minimal Returns: 
Poblete, J 
2020 
University of Hawai'i Press 
Balancing the Tides 
57-82 
Until 2009, the StarKist Samoa cannery was the largest tuna factory in the world. Chicken of the Sea was the second-largest fish processor and exporter across the globe.¹ Both of these canneries were located in American Sāmoa. Their products, whether packaged for high-end stores like Whole Foods, grocery chains like Trader Joe’s, or big-box stores like Walmart, were labeled “Made in the USA” because American Sāmoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States. But as an unincorporated territory of the U.S., federal labor laws do not apply equally, such as minimum wage and maximum work hours. This allowable divergence