Documentary Shows Tide Turn Against Labor Activism
The conviction last September of three prominent labor activists for “gathering crowds to disturb...
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LatestLabor Activist Sentenced Amid Rising Unrest
On November 3, labor activist Meng Han was sentenced to 21 months in prison, making him the fourth...
Trials May Spell End of Era for Chinese Labor Activism
Last month saw the long-anticipated trials of three Guangdong labor activists charged with...
American Jailed in China Describes Prison Conditions
One of the many interviewees in the recent Human Rights Watch report outlining the continued use...
Labor Activists Report Unprecedented Intimidation
With labor strikes and protests in China surging—partly due to escalating pressure on the labor...
Apple Supplier in China Accused of Labor Violations
At PC News, Stephanie Mlot reports that China Labor Watch and Green America, two US-based...
US Teacher: ‘I Did 7 Months of Forced Labor in China’
NPR’s All Things Considered tells the story of Stuart Foster, an American sociology...
Labor Activist Charged After Yue Yuen Strike
The BBC reports that police in China have formally charged a labor activist with disturbing public...
Minitrue: Yue Yuen Strike, Cao Shunli, More
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Foxconn of Footwear Told To Reimburse Striking Workers
Tens of thousands of workers have been on strike at multiple factories for Yue Yuen, the...
Shoe Factory Strikes Spread To Jiangxi (Updated)
Jonathan Kaiman at The Guardian reports that the ongoing Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings)...
China’s Workers Restive And On Strike
As companies from Wal-Mart to the world’s largest shoe-maker, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings,...
Migrants Now Account for One Sixth of Population
According to a newly released government report [zh], China’s “floating...
Airline 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 recently released from the...
Hukou Reform in Spotlight at NPC
What began in the early days of the PRC as a regulatory means to ensure that enough rural labor stayed where it was needed to work the fields, China’s household registration, or hukou system, has long been criticized as...
Photographer Documents Toll of Labor Migration
In 2011, photographer Liu Jie captured the division of Chinese families by labor migration in a series of portraits. Against scenic countryside backdrops, his subjects posed with empty chairs representing family members who had...
Child 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 months ago, but refused to do...
Africa’s Chinese Diaspora: Under Pressure
While the controversies surrounding Beijing’s massive economic and soft-power investments in the African continent are frequently explored by the media, Andrew Bowman looks at an aspect of the China-Africa...
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