Native businesses had to think of tactics to compete with their foreign competition, a realization had been brought that exporting jobs became a more lucrative idea for business owners. American workers require longer wages, satisfactory conditions, and have a limited number of hours to work. Foreign workers can put in more time for less pay and don’t require the same safe conditions in the workplace to continue their shifts. What America’s workers saw was a mass migration of once stationed industries and companies to countries where they could have cheaper and more efficient workers, the most notable was Puerto Rico. Thousands of American workers lost their jobs in waves, layoffs had become more frequent. Companies that didn’t move their manufacturing
