In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?ref=global-home

China strike wave
Strike Wave in China Puts Heat On Official Union by Jane Slaughter December 2011 ‘China faced its second wave of strikes in two years, as thousands of workers in industrial southern provinces—including the sanitation workers in Nanjing—took action. The strikes put heat on the country’s official union. China faced its second wave of strikes in [...]

China toys
Making Toys without Joy: ICTI CARE Covers Labour Rights Violations for Global Toy Brands like Disney, Walmart & Mattel from SACOM In Guangdong province, where 70% of China’s toys are exported, migrant workers’ basic salary is around CNY 850-1320 (USD 134-208), actually the same as the statutory local minimum wage. And the minimum wage is [...]

Hot labor relations in Guangzhou
This 2010 report was deleted by hackers and now reposted. Hot labor relations in Guangzhou China 2010 report by Australian unionist Chris White. I had an opportunity to take part in a labor relations seminar on China in Guangzhou – October 15th to 23rd In China and the labor relations’ world one focus is on [...]

China workers protesting
China: Workers, wildcat strikes and labour advocacy. Latest report from AAWL Workers know that demanding unions independent of the ACFTU is dangerous, and likely to end in arrests and imprisonment. The two dominant forms of labour activism in China currently are wildcat strikes, and advocacy work by NGOs. Read more

Obama in Darwin
From the Wall Street Journal Move Aimed at Countering China in Asia, Clarifying Free Access to South China Sea and President Obama comes to Darwin for the military build up…read here

China conference
COMPARATIVE CHINESE LABOUR STUDIES CONFERENCE 18-19 NOVEMBER 2011 UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY, BUILDING 10 ROOM 03.330 DAY ONE – FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2011 0900 – 0930 Professor Attila Brungs Deputy Vice Chancellor Research Professor Maurizio Marinelli Director China Research Centre Professor Anita Chan China Research Centre Session One 0930 – 1015 Mary Evans, Liu Mingwei, [...]

US, class and China
The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis by Martin Hart-Landsberg (Originally posted before the hacking on 7/4/2010) Martin Hart-Landsberg (marty@lclark.edu) teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, and is the author with Paul Burkett of China and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2005). The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people [...]

US economy and China
The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis by Martin Hart-Landsberg The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people are understandably seeking solutions. Many, encouraged by mainstream media and politicians, believe that China’s trade policies bear primary responsibility for the structural decay of our economy and that recovery will require, above all, pressuring [...]
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