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China’s emergence as the world’s pre-eminent low-cost manufacturer in the 1990s and 2000s devastated Western industries, cost millions of American jobs and was heavily responsible for the election of anti-free trade Donald Trump in 2016 against Hillary Clinton. Clinton championed the (…)
In January 2014, Xu Lizhi penned “A Screw Fell to the Ground,” (一颗螺丝掉在地上), one poem in a collection he wrote during his soul-crushing experience as a Foxconn worker:
A screw fell to the ground
In this dark night of overtime
Plunging vertically, lightly clinking
It won’t attract anyone’s (…)
Julie Liu
Today, I will provide a broad and simplified summary of workers’ resistance in China, especially labor resistance in the low-end manufacturing sector in the post-Covid era. But first I want to give a broad overview of the development of workers’ struggles since China’s market-driven (…)
I am a Chinese socialist, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Tempest Collective. I immigrated to the United States in the last couple of years. Before that, I worked in the Chinese tech industry for many years, and I hope to draw from that experience in my talk. (…)
Andrew Sebald: Thank you all for being here. Can you describe your experiences with labor organizing in China?
Ellen David Friedman: I am a retired union organizer. I’ve spent about fifty years working in the U.S. labor movement, but I spent ten years living and working in China. I was drawn (…)
Workers for some suppliers of Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are still working 75 hours a week, despite the company promising to improve conditions, a report suggests
Reuters A woman walks past a Shein sale advert in an underground station Reuters
A new investigation by Swiss advocacy (…)
China’s post-pandemic economic recovery has not been as expected, with a wave of business closures and layoffs in various places. Workers are being exploited by wage arrears, wage cuts, and unpaid overtime. According to the China Labour Bulletin (CLB), a labour rights group for workers in China, (…)
In 2023, China has witnessed a notable increase in the numbers of strikes in manufacturing, which have been triggered by a new wave of factory relocations and closure after the Covid pandemic. According to China Labor Bulletin (CLB – an organization that tracks workers’ collective actions in (…)
Labor strikes are rising in China as weak demand sees factories shutter and workers’ pay cut.
Strikes in China’s manufacturing sector are rising amid a shaky domestic economic recovery and a global economy still weighed down by the war in Ukraine and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (…)
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (…)
• As stable manufacturing jobs become affected by the global economic downturn, what is the role of international brands in China’s widespread factory layoffs, relocations, and closures, and how can China’s official trade union take advantage of a confluence of stakeholder interests to better (…)
The intake below was written by Wen, a comrade from mainland China who was active in labor-support work there throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. Most of it was originally written in January 2020, just after the last labor activists of the 2010s had been detained, forced to go (…)
Note: The Chinese original article is [here->https://borderless-hk.com/2023/01/14/why-did-foxconn-workers-protests-in-zhengzhou-happen-the-seven-evil-deeds-of-foxconn-the-ccp-and-apple. Through carefully reviewing the whole processes of the protests the author indicted the collusion between the (…)
要求苹果公司承担其社会责任，彻查郑州富士康事件
We request that Apple Inc. take on its social responsibility to thoroughly investigate the incident at Zhengzhou’s Foxconn factory
自十月末以来，社交媒体上涌现出大量来自中国河南省的视频，接着境内外传媒也报道，显示当地富士康工人正在遭受残酷且荒谬的对待。
Since early October, footage depicting Foxconn workers’ experience of (…)
Stories of workers escaping from Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory in China have been circulating on Chinese social media. Fearful of COVID-19 inflection and confined to the factory compound, some workers panicked and fled home. To bring forward a worker’s perspective on why and how they fled, we have (…)
Cities near Foxconn plant draw up plans to isolate migrant workers who are returning to home towns
Cities in central China have hastily drawn up plans to isolate migrant workers fleeing to their home towns from the country’s largest iPhone factory, amid fears they will spread coronavirus after (…)
THERE WAS outrage in China last month after bank depositors seeking the return of their savings were targeted by state security forces.
In particular, banks in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, saw protests by over 1,000 bank depositors. They were, however, attacked by plainclothes police and (…)
Workers for some suppliers of the Chinese fashion giant Shein are doing excessive overtime, a non-governmental organisation has suggested.
Getty Images Georgia Toffolo at the launch of her Shein clothing line in London.Getty Images Georgia Toffolo and other British influencers have (…)
The HKU doctoral student has long had an interest in social issues on the mainland and had attracted the attention of state security personnel He did not seem worried about being questioned, according to his friends. But then he was detained.
Fang Ran was not alarmed when his belongings, (…)
Fang Ran, a 26-year-old Chinese citizen, was arrested in late August in mainland China. Since then, his relatives have had no news of him. According to his father, he is being held without trial and without access to a lawyer, in a secret location. This type of six-month solitary confinement is (…)
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