A photograph of a delivery driver forced to kneel before a neighborhood security guard in Hangzhou has inspired widespread calls for better labor protections for China’s working class. The viral image of the kneeling driver...
Margaret Hillenbrand, professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, joined CDT to discuss her two latest books: “On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China” (2023) and “Negative Exposures: Knowing...
Amid the ongoing pandemic, the services provided by food delivery platforms have become a lifeline for many shut-in or socially distanced consumers, in China and elsewhere. Despite the newfound essentiality of delivery drivers...
The conviction last September of three prominent labor activists for “gathering crowds to disturb...
Last month saw the long-anticipated trials of three Guangdong labor activists charged with...
On Monday, three labor activists associated with Guangdong’s Panyu Worker’s Center were sentenced...
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports that authorities in Hunan have summoned riot police...
The Associated Press’ Didi Tang describes the gathering momentum of worker strikes across...
A series of recent posts at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute Blog...
Bloomberg’s Dexter Roberts examines the wave of taxi strikes that have struck several...
With labor strikes and protests in China surging—partly due to escalating pressure on the labor...
China Labour Bulletin has posted a profile of Meng Han, a lifelong laborer who has devoted himself...
From AFP: The number of labour-related law suits nearly doubled in China last year as layoffs spiked due to the global economic crisis, while a new employment law also kept the courts busy, state media reported Tuesday. The...
From Reuters: A labour dispute at Shenzhen Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet Co Ltd (000060.SZ: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), China’s third-largest zinc producer, has been resolved and has not affected output, company...
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