[SeekAndFind]

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A Chinese working “hour” is 60 minutes—unlike an American “hour,” which generally includes breaks for Facebook, the bathroom, a phone call, and some conversation. The official work day in China is 8 hours long, but the standard shift is 12 hours. Generally, these shifts extend to 14-16 hours, especially when there’s a hot new gadget to build.

Assembly lines can only move as fast as their slowest worker, so all the workers are watched (with cameras). Most people stand.

The workers stay in dormitories. In a 12-by-12 cement cube of a room, Daisey counts 15 beds, stacked like drawers up to the ceiling. Normal-sized Americans would not fit in them.
Unions are illegal in China. Anyone found trying to unionize is sent to prison.

Some workers can no longer work because their hands have been destroyed by doing the same thing hundreds of thousands of times over many years (mega-carpal-tunnel). This could have been avoided if the workers had merely shifted jobs. Once the workers’ hands no longer work, obviously, they’re canned.

One former worker had asked her company to pay her overtime, and when her company refused, she went to the labor board. The labor board put her on a black list that was circulated to every company in the area. The workers on the black list are branded “troublemakers” and companies won’t hire them.

[freedumb2003]

>>Unions are illegal in China. Anyone found trying to unionize is sent to prison.<<

So the Chinese do one thing we should copy.

[familyop]

"One former worker had asked her company to pay her overtime, and when her company refused, she went to the labor board. The labor board put her on a black list that was circulated to every company in the area. The workers on the black list are branded “troublemakers” and companies won’t hire them."

That's been done here in the USA for over three decades, and here's a peek at the class of people doing it. They're all quite connected to government debt and all quite socialist, regardless of their various political party and other affiliations. None of them are conservatives, although many of them play conservative on the Internet for purposes of "gatekeeping."

[PapaBear3625]

The young people working those conditions are there precisely because they can’t find anything better which will get them fed and housed. Trying to ban the conditions, with the result of making the businesses unprofitable, means that instead of working long hours, they work NO hours and starve to death in the streets.