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Young office workers seek way out of legal quagmire by appealing online
Han Dongfang talks to a young couple fighting an obstinate employer and buck-passing officials to get unpaid social security contributions who finally got some help after posting an account of their struggle online.
05 January 2012
The Hindu: Where they trade in fear
The detention of two Indians by Chinese businessmen has shed light on the tough, uncompromising and often lawless business environment in which foreign enterprises, lured by lucrative profits, operate in some southern Chinese trading towns.
09 January 2012
Strikes and protests continue into the New Year
The recent upsurge in worker activism in China is continuing into the New Year with five more strikes and protests in five different provinces getting media attention last week.
09 January 2012
Shenzhen job hunters unfazed by economic downturn
In spite of a sharp fall in the number of job openings in the southern metropolis of Shenzhen, migrant workers are still showing up at the city’s job fairs confident of finding employment in a city where there is a significant under-supply of labour.
09 January 2012
China's vocational schools and the state of the labour market in Shenzhen
William Nee and Geoffrey Crothall discuss CLB's new study of the vocational school system in China and the exploitation of interns, while Jennifer Cheung talks about her latest trip to a job fair across the border in Shenzhen.
12 January 2012
The Mass Production of Labour: The exploitation of students in China's vocational school system
Around nine million students graduate each year from China's vocational schools and colleges. They hope for a decent job with good prospects but all too often end up working on the factory production line.
12 January 2012
The Mass Production of Labour: The exploitation of students in China’s vocational school system
Around nine million students graduate each year from China’s vocational schools and colleges. They hope for a decent job with good prospects but all too often end up working on the factory production line. Even before they graduate, students are routinely exploited when deployed, for up to one year of their studies, as interns. Photograph by Mark Hobbs available at flickr.com under a creative commons license.
12 January 2012
APM Marketplace: Chinese laborers take drastic measures for a raise
Word today out of China that 150 workers at a factory that makes iPhones all threatened to jump from the top of the building if they didn't get a raise. Those workers at the Foxconn plant did get a raise. It's the same company that got a lot of press over the past few years for a rash of suicides there among workers, but these aren't the only workers protesting work conditions and pay in the country.
12 January 2012
Bloomberg: Foxconn Says 150 Workers at Southern China Plant Protest Redeployment
Foxconn Technology Group (FOXCGZ), maker of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and parts for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox game console, said 150 workers at a southern China factory protested against a plan to transfer them to another business unit.
12 January 2012
Mind the gap: Apple’s code of conduct and China’s labour laws
When Apple, one of the world’s most secretive companies, was winning plaudits for finally revealing the names of its supplier companies in its 2012 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report last Friday, one small detail seems to have been overlooked.
16 January 2012