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Global Issues

Meet two Chinese factory workers, Lu Qingmin and Wu Chunming

Posted By Kate Torgovnick
September 12, 2012 at 11:16 am EDT

It’s hard not to get a lump in your throat when you read about the grueling conditions in Chinese factories. It’s hard not to feel guilt about those working 70 hours a week in Foxconn factories where iPhones and iPads are assembled, or to feel shocked at revelations that workers in toy factories regularly receive fines […]

Global Issues

Listening to China’s workers: Leslie T. Chang at TEDGlobal2012

Posted By Ben Lillie
June 27, 2012 at 9:24 am EDT

Think about the things you use every day — and about the people who make them. Leslie Chang is a journalist who has spent years in China to talk to the workers who make the products we use, voices that have been missing from much of the discussion about labor, global markets and exploitation. “This […]