Chinese Factory Workers Talk About Labor Struggles at Home | SF

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The new book “China on Strike” is based on dozens of interviews with workers in Pearl River Delta factories, an industrial region of 60 million people that has become the “workshop of the world,” as China has become the fastest growing major economy in the world over the last three decades.

Pearl River Delta factories supply the world’s most profitable corporations, like Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and many others.

These interviews document the processes of internal migration in China, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth.

China on Strike is the first English-language book to provide an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers as they organize against low pay and brutal working conditions, launching the world’ largest strike wave in the 21st century.

Two of these contributors will be in attendance and will speak and answer questions via interperter Alex T. Tom.

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