Foxconn Riot Flashes a Glimpse of China’s Slow-burning Labor Crisis
Originally posted at In These Times On September 23, in Taiyuan, China, about 2,000 workers erupted in a burst of anger, leaving a factory compound scarred with broken glass and flames. But the trouble...
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China Labor Watchdogs Expose Dark Side of Global Toy Empire
(Plounsbury, Flickr, Creative Commons) Originally posted at In These Times Despite the occasional factory fire or sweatshop media expose, American consumers have largely inured themselves to the...
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WalMart Empire Clashes with China
Nik McGettigan (via artistsvswalmart.tumblr.com) Typically when we hear “WalMart” and “China” in the same sentence, we picture the “made in” labels on our toys, gadgets, and the other mass-produced...
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Can We Trust Foxconn’s New ‘Democratic’ Chinese Factories?
Carol Simpson Cartoon Work (www.cartoonwork.com) Originally posted at In These Times A few years ago, the multinational tech manufacturer Foxconn, a brand previously vaunted as a symbol of China’s...
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Bus Strike Exposes Social Divides in Singapore
(xcode via flickr / Creative Commons) Originally posted at In These Times A spontaneous strike in November, the first in 26 years, shook up the tight social order of Singapore. As with many aspects of...
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A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers
Originally posted at In These Times SACOM Apple protest, Hong Kong (Lennon Ying-Dah Wong via flickr / creative commons) With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has...
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Boss-napped: What We Can Learn From China’s Labor Banditry
Originally posted at In These Times Many workers struggle to hold onto their job, but when you’re feeling especially insecure about your employment situation, you might want to try to hold onto your...
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More Bad Apple: Watchdog Exposes New Chinese Factory Abuses
The workers’ dormitories are often dirty and cramped, with eight to 12 workers in a room and often inadequate sanitation facilities, according to the China Labor Watch report. (Courtesy of China Labor...
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Exploitation Remains the Name of the Game at Dell’s Chinese Factories
Electronics assemblers in Shenzhen, China, where a recent report detailed substandard conditions at a Dell factory. (Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons) Originally published at In These Times There is...
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China’s Militant Workers Embrace Collective Action
Originally published at In These Times China is the big business story of the 21st century, but is it also the big labor story? A new report on China’s labor movement, covering about 1,170 strikes and...
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