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Chinese Manufacturing Feels Brunt of Global Slowdown

Amid the manufacturing slowdown and decrease in demand for Chinese goods abroad, factories in Guangdong have experienced a recent wave of labor strikes. The strikes recall the labor unrest last year which was primarily due to poor working conditions and mistreatment of workers. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Thousands of workers clashed with police on Thursday at a footwear factory in the city