This latest NLC report said KYE, a Microsoft contract manufacturer in Dongguan, China, works teenaged employees as many as 15 hours a day and six to seven days a week, putting them up in squalid dorms and paying as little as $0.52 an hour after deductions for factory food that must be consumed basically on the run.
Today about 90 million urban Chinese factory workers are migrant workers from the countryside, comprising the largest and most rapidly expanded industrial working class in history. Before the mid-2000s, these workers from the countryside were employed only temporarily in factories, and almost all were young, very poorly paid and exploited ...
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China: Industrial profits hit a 25-month high amid signs of bottoming out China's industrial profits reached a 25-month high of 10.2% YoY ytd in the first two months of 2024. Combined with earlier industrial production data, we see positive signs for industrials having bottomed out
A factory that wants to get a certification (also called "accreditation") needs to pay a company (which is itself a certified "registrar") to get such a document. The registrar will audit the factory and certify that it is compliant to a certain standard. Regular re-audits will be necessary to renew the certification.
China's manufacturing sector faces rising costs, consumer sophistication, value-chain complexity, and volatility as it transitions to a consumption-based economy. …
The document discusses several issues related to working conditions at the Metai factory in China that produces keyboards for major US tech companies like Microsoft, Dell, and HP. It raises questions about the ethical responsibilities of outsourcing production to factories with poor working conditions, and whether US companies should be held …
Working Conditions for Chinese Factory Workers "Sweatshops" have garnered significant media exposure globally over the past decade. In part due to poor work conditions and use of underage labor in sweatshops, multinational corporations have begun making an effort to improve conditions for Chinese factory workers that manufacture their products.
Influencers are under fire for praising working conditions in Shein's clothing factory despite abuse allegations Shein's attempt to clear up negative reports about its factories …
Just don't always compare with everything in China," a manager of a Chinese factory which was launched last year in Monterrey, the industrial centre of northern Mexico, said on condition of ...
Chinese cabbage was cultivated in a plant factory and growing conditions were maintained through a wireless sensor and control network system. Leaf samples were collected at 2 and 4 weeks after ...
SACOM Report (May 2012) On May 31, 2012, the Hong Kong-based Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) issued a report following up on an investigation undertaken by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) at Foxconn factories in China. Foxconn, a Taiwanese company, employs more than one million workers in …
Chinese factory conditions are a common topic of discussion whenever manufacturing in China comes up. Here is a firsthand look from one of our newest hires.
Poor conditions for Vietnamese workers building a $900 million tire factory underscore a chasm between the promise of investment from China and grim realities on the ground.
The 2018 trade war between China and the U.S. was a catalyst in a manufacturing exodus from China as rounds of tariff levies almost wiped out the narrow profits of the garment and furniture manufacturing industries in China, forcing many producers to move factories abroad.
A riot involving 2,000 workers at a factory in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan on Sunday night has once again shined a light on conditions at factories owned by Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn.
In China, Chinese factories often subject factory workers to grueling conditions. Long shifts under intense pressure characterize their daily routine. Despite economic growth, many factories prioritize output over employee welfare. Workers face …
Chinese factory workers producing toys for Hasbro, Disney, and Mattel and are being subjected to "nightmare" working conditions in the run-up to Christmas, an …
I think the main takeaway here is that Chinese factory conditions vary considerably, depending on location, product type and other factors. There are some factories that are unsafe, run-down and …
That assembly line, at a factory operated by Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn, is described in a new report by a watchdog group that advocates for better working conditions at Chinese companies.
The conditions of Chinese factories clearly reveal significant labor issues—but it's more complex than that. First of all, it's a legal issue. Chinese legislation does limit overtime, yet the law seems …
The hearing's witnesses discussed the prevalence of harsh working conditions in Chinese factories in places like Shenzhen and Shanghai, assessed …
The document discusses several issues related to working conditions at the Metai factory in China that produces keyboards for major US tech companies like Microsoft, Dell, and …
The conditions of Chinese factories clearly reveal significant labor issues—but it's more complex than that. First of all, it's a legal issue. ... three human rights activists in China are being detained or have gone …
Foreign manufacturers must carefully craft their strategy, either to compete head to head or to co-innovate and grow together with Chinese companies, to win in …
Some Chinese companies have used their overseas subsidiary to invest in Mexico to avoid being labelled as "Chinese investment" in the official record, according to factory managers and experts.
China's emergence as a manufacturing powerhouse has been astonishing. In seventh place, trailing Italy, as recently as 1980, China not only overtook the United States in 2011 to become the world's largest producer of manufactured goods but also used its huge manufacturing engine to boost living standards by doubling the country's GDP per …
Since the launch of the Chinese Factory Project in 2019, we have received funding from universities and libraries in the US and China. On the list are the Harvard-Yenching Library, Stanford East Asian Library, the University of Michigan Asian Library, Association for Asian Studies (USA), Duke Kunshan Data Science Research Center, and most ...
Chinese manufacturers are increasingly setting their sights on Mexico for bringing production closer to the American market, reflecting higher costs of Chinese …
The non-manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in August from 50.2 the month before, indicating a slight improvement in business sentiment, NBS data also showed. …
A Chinese activist from China Labor Watch, Li Quang, states: "I just want the customers to know that Apple operates heartless factories." And Ralph Nader explains, "Apple is in the best ...