As he visits factories, interviews underground labor leaders, and chokes on the toxic fumes of Shenzhen’s air (he likens it to a “boot” pressing down on your chest,) Daisey’s greatest revelation is that the words “factory made” don’t mean “machine made.” Walking through a perfectly quiet manufacturing plant where tens of thousands of gloved hands noiselessly slide millions of pieces of products together without assistance, he sees what most of us should have realized by now – in a world where labor costs less than technology, everything is truly handmade.