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Bookmark or Share- Exposing the Reality of Chinese SweatshopsIn many Chinese sweatshops, workers endure grueling conditions that significantly surpass legal limits. On average, they spend around 87 hours each week at the factory, with 70 of those hours dedicated to actual labor. This staggering workload includes approximately 30 hours of forced overtime, a practice that raises serious ethical concerns ...
- Chinese Sweatshop Model Challenged, but Rulers Strike BackChina 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,...
- Sweatshop - WikipediaChinese sweatshops known to have increased numbers of suicidal employees have suicide nets covering the whole site, in place to stop overworked and stressed employees from leaping to their deaths, such as in the case of the Foxconn suicides.
- Sweatshops in China - War on WantChina is the world’s biggest clothing exporter – in 2009 it produced 34% of the world’s clothing exports. In 2009 alone, approximately one million workers suffered industrial injuries and about 20,000 were victims of occupational disease.
- Sweatshops in China - TraidTRAID is working with War on Want and local partner SACOM to fund a project to improve the Chinese garment sector by researching working conditions in factories to raise international awareness of labour rights violations in China among brands and the public.
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