China's Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy

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ISBN: 9780765603586 | 0765603586
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Copyright: 3/31/2001

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Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

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Abbreviations

xiii

Map 1. Location of Cases in China

xiv

Map 2. Location of Cases in Guangdong Province

Introduction

(17)

Forced Labor and Violations of Shop-Floor Labor Standards

(26)

Zhaojie Footwear Company: Mistreatment of Workers Under Investigation---Overtime, Extra Shifts, and Arbitrary Physical Punishment---We Can't Take It Anymore

(3)

Working Undercover in a Factory

(5)

Blood and Tears of the Soul---The Story of a Group of Workers Going on Strike

(8)

The Two Were Chased and Beaten to Death in the River

(5)

Give Me Back My Eight-Hour Workday System, Cried Employees from ``Three Capital'' Enterprises

(3)

Corporal Punishment and Physical Assaults

(36)

Wails from Behind a High Wall

(4)

What Is the Most Appropriate Way to Manage Mainland-Chinese Workers?---A Headache Facing Taiwanese Investors That Needs to Be Discussed

(5)

Korean Woman Boss Forces 120 Workers to Kneel Down

(7)

Why Do Female Migrant Workers Go on Strike?

(10)

Enterprise ``Internal Security Department'' Sets Up a Kangaroo Court: Worker Beaten Until Crippled for Breaking Rules

(4)

Motorcyclist Crashed into a Fence and Refused to Apologize; Village ``Big Shot'' Gathered the Troops to Battle Migrant Workers

(5)

Violations of Occupational Safety and Health

(55)

Report on Foreign Shoe Factories That Endanger Women Workers with Hydrocarbon Poisons in Putian, Fujian

(14)

A Price That Should Not Be Paid

(9)

Toyland Inferno: A Journey Through the Ruins

106

(28)

Four Years Later---A Letter from One of the Survivors

134

(3)

Violations of the Right to Work

137

(12)

How Should We Evaluate This Kind of ``Investment Capital'' Through the Recruitment of Workers? A Report on How Yanzhou Department Store Hires Employees

138

(6)

Not a Single One of the 1,100 Employees of Shenyang City's Harmony Company Escaped the Misfortune of a Mass Layoff---Without Discussions with the Board of Directors and Staff and Workers Representative Committee

144

(5)

Violations of the Right to Organize and of Collective Action

149

(23)

Power and the Law: Who Mistreats Whom?

151

(14)

Standing Up for Workers' Rights---An Act of Subversion? The Trial of Two Shenzhen Laborers

165

(2)

``Let History Be the Judge''---Li Wenming's Statement to the Court

167

(1)

Li Dongming's Statement in Court in Defense of His Brother, Li Wenming

168

(1)

``It All Depends on Us''

169

(3)

Indentured Labor Abroad

172

(34)

Give Back My Dignity: An Investigative Report on the Case of M/V Arcadia---Chinese Seafarers ``Leaking State Secrets''

175

(11)

Should Be Pay the Administration Fee? Investigation in the Labor Administration Fee Lawsuit Against Fu Sumei in Sanming Sanyuan District Court

186

(5)

Statement of Sui Jianwei

191

(5)

Women Workers Shed Tears on the Pacific Islands

196

(10)

Workers' Resistance

206

(17)

Several Dozen Workers Besieged and Taiwanese Businessmen Injured; The Victims' Painful Account

207

(5)

Open Letter to All the Staff and Workers at Factory 3501

212

(2)

Second Letter to the Staff and Workers at Factory 3501

214

(1)

News from Beijing Factory 3501

215

(3)

The Migrant ``Lawyer'' Who Specializes in ``Speaking Out'' for Other Migrants

218

(5)

In Pursuit of Labor Rights

223

(18)

Selected Bibliography

241

(4)

Index

245

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China's Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy

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