A Worker’s Revolt That Would Make Karl Marx Proud
China has ten million slaves. The definition of a slave is someone who is given work and food but no wages. That’s what these people are.
—Professor Zhou Xiaozheng, People’s University of China
China’s factory workers are not only some of the hardest working and most disciplined in the world. They also are forced to toil in dangerous and oppressive working conditions not seen since the Dickensian nineteenth century.
The worst of the worst are China’s coal mines, where thousands of miners die annually and tens of thousands more are severely injured. In these mines, peasants are routinely forced to sign what are derisively referred to as “life-and-death contracts” that revoke all legal claims ...
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