Word: yueyuan
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...Yueyuan Factory No. 3 in Dongguan, in the Guangdong province of China, Zhang Jinming, 21, who comes from the poor inland province of Jiangxi, runs a stamping machine. "I work here because I have to earn a living, but it's boring work. When I have money, I'll go back," he says. [TIME used its own interpreters.] The average monthly wage is 600 renminbi, or $73. The company provides meals and living quarters in spartan although adequate dorm rooms that sleep 12 and offer individual storage closets and ceiling fans for the summer. In Vietnam, by comparison, the minimum...
...rate for labor wherever they are. And Nike maintains that the rate is good. Research conducted by Dartmouth College, for instance, found that Nike subcontractors in Indonesia and Vietnam paid above subsistence levels, allowing workers to save a portion of their earnings. TIME found this to be true at Yueyuan...
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