How bad are Chinese sweatshops? In fast fashion, a factory's employees must be swiftly produced, making them sickly and at risk. Worker dormitories are overcrowded and they lack childcare facilities.

Chinese workers often spend upward of 12 hours a day, six days a week at their place of employment, so it's unclear exactly how much of their time could be spend pursuing leisure activities.

But now Chinese regulators are installing new rules ... that Apple contracts to repair many of its laptops say they face "sweatshop" conditions as they fix the expensive, high-tech products.