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I assume you're referring to the customers who spend hours assembling this stuff?



No. they produce much of the flat pack furniture for their US stores in a domestic factory.


That changed in 2011, afaik.

http://www.labornotes.org/2011/08/furniture-workers-win-ikea...

"After scathing articles about conditions in the Swedwood plant appeared overseas, union woodworkers in Europe and Asia pressured the iconic Swedish brand."




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