China has become known as the world’s factory, or more properly, the world’s sweatshop. It has epitomized corporate globalization at its worst, a nightmarish model of 21st century slavery ...

China’s leaders are spurring the country to create a more productive and professional workforce for an economy shifting from export manufacturing toward services and domestic demand.

Manufacturers near the urban centers are turning to automation and technology to stay competitive in labor markets where the wage rates are catching up to developed countries.

The Foxconn factory is unusual because the Shenzhen, China facility has reported 10 worker suicides, and three additional suicides at other Foxconn facilities. At the All Things Digital D8 ...

With its sooty look, this material the Chinese call "black cotton" is processed by the sweatshop into bedding and pillow forms to be sold nationwide.

A Chinese factory contracted to produce figurines of the 2010 World Cup mascots denied Wednesday allegations of sweatshop conditions and use of child labor, saying it operates in complete ...

Native Bostonian Mike Gecawicz is a worker on an assembly line in China. Gecawicz assembles 3.5 mm headphone cables in Dongguan, a city in Southern China. He chose to become a factory worker to ...

Fashion influencers with big followings on social media came under fire this week for praising the supposedly humane working conditions of a Chinese clothing brand notorious for being a sweatshop ...

China’s Rural Boom, Factory Workers Get the Last Laugh WUHU, China — “Years after activists accused Nike and other Western brands of running Third World sweatshops, the issue has taken a ...

Kardashian sweatshop in China?Workers’ rights organization China Labor Watch has just published a damning investigative report into a pair of factories in China, where working conditions ...

Wal-Mart's self-policing in the Chun Si factory was a disaster. What kind of monitoring system works?