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Chinese Sweatshop Model Challenged, but Rulers Strike Back Roger Bybee June 15, 2010 Workers work on a production line at the plant of Tianwei Yingli Green Energy Resources Co., Ltd. in Baoding ...
There is a gaping hole in "Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops"-- BusinessWeek's Nov. 27 cover story exposing how Chinese factories evade the efforts of Western audit firms investigating labor standard ...
Thursday brought another entry in Cannes’ massive-doc sweepstakes. Chinese director Wang Bing, who has two films in this year’s festival, is in the competition with “Youth,” a three-and-a ...
A militant union is escalating an unusual wave of strikes in the city of Prato — Italy's so-called textile capital — where ...
HONG KONG (AP) -- Snoopy, Winnie the Pooh and Hello Kitty toys sold with McDonald's meals in Hong Kong are made at a mainland Chinese sweatshop that illegally employs children to package them, a ...
A British shopper reportedly discovered a letter from someone claiming to be a Chinese sweatshop worker. The letter was allegedly found inside a pair of socks purchased from Irish clothing ...
While the average annual urban income is just $1,200, some five to seven percent of the Chinese population—predominantly the owners of small businesses, well-to-do farmers, professionals and ...
After Chinese startup DeepSeek sparked panic on Wall Street with its powerful new chatbot developed at a fraction of the cost of its competitors, social media users shared a fabricated Time ...
Liu Zhang (not his real name) was apprehensive about taking a job at the Chun Si Enterprise Handbag Factory in Zhongshan, a booming city in Guangdong Province in southern China, where thousands of ...
Just days after public radio's "This American Life" aired an episode about Chinese sweatshops, 150 workers at an electronics factory in Wuhan threatened to commit suicide by jumping off the ...