The Migrant Worker’s Stagnant Status
In a recent article, The Economist compares the condition of two generations of migrant workers in China. Many [migrant workers] have ended up in the same jobs and dormitory beds as their parents did....
View ArticleLi Wangyang: I Won’t Retreat Even if I am Beheaded
After labor activist Li Wangyang was found dead in his hospital room, his family and supporters in China and around the world have called for an investigation into his death. While hospital and...
View ArticleReport Shows Foxconn Conditions Improving
In March, Taiwanese electronics manufacturing contractor Foxconn pledged to make serious improvements to working conditions in their mainland Chinese factories after the Fair Labor Association launched...
View ArticleChild Protesters Reap Success For Migrant Workers
Children of migrant laborers who had long been owed wages from a tourism company in Dali, Yunnan province joined their parents in protest this week. The company received a court order to to pay up...
View ArticleFoxconn Plant Open, But Broader Issues Persist
Foxconn’s Taiyuan plant reopened on Tuesday morning after closing due to a worker riot, and the company expects little impact to production as it gets back to the business of assembling electronics for...
View ArticleReport Says Thousands of Foxconn Workers Protested
When reports came out last week of a large-scale strike at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, some observers cast doubts on their accuracy. A new report in China Business Journal interviews Foxconn workers...
View ArticleFoxconn Entangled in Labor Rights Inquiries
The father of a brain-damaged former Foxconn worker sued the world’s biggest electronics manufacturer this Tuesday. Tan Ee Lyn at Reuters reveals the shady tactics played by Foxconn in such worker...
View ArticleIs Change Emerging in China’s Factories?
Keith Bradsher and Charles Duhigg of The New York Times report that electronics companies such as Apple, which came under heavy criticism earlier this year for the working conditions on its Chinese...
View ArticleJilin Slaughterhouse Fire Raises Safety Concerns
The death toll from a fire at a Jilin slaughterhouse on Monday has risen to at least 120, prompting the detention of a senior official at the plant’s operator, anger on the part of bereaved relatives,...
View ArticleAmerican Executive Released from Factory
Chip Starnes, an American businessman who was held hostage by workers at his factory outside Beijing, has been released after five days. Starnes, a co-owner of Specialty Medical Supplies, was prevented...
View ArticleLosing Battle Against Lung Disease and Workers’ Rights
Of the growing number of migrant workers affected by pneumoconiosis, Echo Hui reports, only a few manage to get compensation as authorities turn a blind eye to occupational health and workers’ rights....
View ArticleWorking Hard and Playing Hard in Fun City
A New York Times article and accompanying video look at the lives of Foxconn workers once their shifts end. Outside the gates of the Zhengzhou Foxconn campus, the atmosphere “resembles a gigantic...
View ArticleReport Alleges Labor Violations at Apple Supplier
U.S.-based workers-rights group China Labor Watch published a report on Monday alleging numerous labor violations at three factories owned by Pegatron Group, a major supplier to Apple: CLW’s...
View ArticleBeijing Listens to the People. What Does That Mean?
At The Washington Post last week, Simon Denyer reported on the expansion of Beijing’s efforts to gather data on public opinion, both online and through surveys: [… T]he government is trying to...
View ArticleWill China’s Labor Unions See Reform?
Chinese president Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged the new leadership of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) to both safeguard the rights of workers and reinforce the Communist Party’s...
View ArticleWorker Death Raises Questions at Apple Contractor
The New York Times reports on the recent death of a young laborer at a Shanghai factory owned by Pegatron Corporation, a major supplier for Apple Inc.: Last September, a young Chinese laborer named Shi...
View Article“Democracy Must Begin on the Factory Floor”
At The World Post, China Labour Bulletin founder Han Dongfang discusses prospects for labor organization in China: […] Of course, the party will not permit broad political freedom in China, but it...
View ArticleCensorship Vault: Black Kilns, Democracy Stimulation, Suicide Games
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org...
View ArticleAirline Headphones Allegedly Made With Prison Labor
Former prisoners claim that they were forced to make headphones for airlines including Qantas, British Airways and Emirates while serving sentences at a prison in Guangdong, reports AFP: Two inmates...
View ArticleLabor Organization in China: Risky Business
In 2009, university-educated Huang Xingguo took a cashier job at a newly opened Walmart store in Changde, Hunan Province, where he quickly rose to management and was then elected to lead the store’s...
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