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Chinese products fell under fire again with the recall of more than 1.5 million Thomas & Friends train sets--adding to a long list of perilous exports including toothpaste and pet food. The city of Dongguan may be thriving as the world's toy capital, but at what cost...
...Leave the theme parks to Dongguan and the patriotic history museums to Beijing. Be yourself, Hong Kong. Celebrate quality, culture, entrepreneurship, food, efficiency, climate and scenery?and the rich and famous will come...
...ever-cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates." His observation was published 160 years ago, but it's an accurate commentary on the plight of millions of Chinese like Chen Suo, a 16-year-old assembly-line worker at shoe manufacturer Stella International located in the southern city of Dongguan in Guangdong province. Chen returned to her home in Shaanxi province in disgrace earlier this month after spending eight months in jail for participating in a labor protest that turned violent. "I wasn't thinking of breaking things or blowing things up," says Chen of the April rampage, during which...
...faster China pumps out products, the more powerless and frustrated factory workers have become with chronically low wages, poor living conditions and disregard for their rights. Discontent has boiled over in a rising number of strikes and protests. Taiwan-owned Stella International's six Dongguan factories, which employ some 50,000 people making shoes for more than a dozen overseas companies, including Nike, Reebok, Clarks, Sears and Timberland, were hit by at least three disturbances alone last spring. Grievances included the quality of cafeteria food, overtime policies and holiday...
...Emboldened though they may be, jail remains a very real possibility for agitators. Yet even those who have been convicted of inciting unrest are receiving help from an unlikely quarter: factory managers and their overseas clients. After the riot at Stella's Dongguan factory, 10 workers including Chen, the migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned...