“Simest Institution” is affiliated to the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, and “has dispatched a technical mission to Egypt, to study means to transfer Italian technology to Egypt with a special focus on the fields of textiles and ready-made garments, leather and tanneries, furniture, food industries , packaging , construction and marble. This is supposed to take place within the framework of a strategy to establish semi-Italian industrial zones”
Semi-Italian industrial zones. Interesting term.
Technology transfer here means transferring production of Italian goods to Egypt, while transferring the goods themselves, and the profits, to Italy. It is like the “technology transfers” of Nike and Reebok to Indonesia in the 1990s. In Indonesia that led to workers sometimes being literally chained to their workstations, sometimes locked in the factories, and even burning to death if the the factories caught fire. It is like the “technology transfer” of companies like Walmart and the Gap to garment workers in Bangladesh. The “technology transfer” of Apple to factories in China where conditions are so bad the building has to be fitted with nets to prevent workers from jumping to their deaths from the upper floors.
We are not talking about technology developed in university research laboratories being transferred into commercial production. We are talking about Italian manufacturers shifting labor to Egypt to cut costs. Like Indonesia, and Bangladesh, that means, wages must remain low and worker rights must remain non-existent, to keep Egypt’s competitive advantage in the global slave market. Your slaves must be cheaper, work harder, and be the more passive and obedient than any other country’s slaves.