在战后的大部分时间里，全球供应链的组织原则一直是生产向低成本劳动力大军转移，因为劳动力曾是、现在也是流动性最差的经济因素（劳动力、资本和知识 ） 。
The organizing principle of global supply chains for most of the post-war period has been to move production toward low-cost pools of labor, because labor was and is the least mobile of economic factors (labor, capital, and knowledge).