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HERO ID
7766009
Reference Type
Book/Book Chapter
Title
Minimal Returns:
Author(s)
Poblete, J
Year
2020
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Book Title
Balancing the Tides
Page Numbers
57-82
DOI
10.2307/j.ctvwcjdnj.8
URL
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvwcjdnj.8
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Abstract
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 SÄmoa. Their products, whether packaged for high-end stores like Whole Foods, grocery chains like Trader Joeâs, or big-box stores like Walmart, were labeled âMade in the USAâ because American SÄmoa 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
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