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Zipping along Beijing’s streets on an electric scooter with sometimes death-defying speed, Chen Guojiang delivered hundreds of take-out food orders a day.Along the way, he filmed short videos that documented the viciously competitive conditions for China’s estimated 3 million workers who use (...)
China’s best-known food delivery worker activist, Chen Guojiang, was detained on 25 February and has been held at Beijing’s Chaoyang district detention centre since.
In mid-March, his family was formally notified that Chen is accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (寻衅滋事), the (...)
Rural-urban migrant workers in China often do not receive the same benefits at the workplace as their urban counterparts. This column uses a rich longitudinal survey to study the effects of union presence on the welfare of migrant workers. It finds that relative to workplaces without unions or (...)
Ten years since the Foxconn suicides, Mainland Chinese workers continue to suffer under the company’s exploitative practices.
2020 marks ten years since the Foxconn suicides. The 18 successive suicides of young workers and the uncovering of conditions on Foxconn’s shop floors in 2010 set off a (...)
In early September, China’s two main food delivery platforms, Meituan and Ele.me, were stunned by an expose in People (人物) magazine of the intense working conditions endured by industry employees on a daily basis.
The article (外卖骑手，困在系统里) revealed in detail how food delivery workers were essentially (...)
Between May and July of 2018, several workers at Shenzhen Jasic attempted to form a union, but were dismissed from the factory. In mid-July, these former employees obtained support from people outside Jasic (including university students, workers from other factories and former Jasic employees (...)
After the pandemic, China’s workers take another hit from widespread flooding.
Tens of millions of people have been affected by this year’s devastating floods across central China, mostly in the relatively poorer provinces of Jiangxi and Anhui, as well as around Wuhan, the locus of the Covid-19 (...)
Five well-known labour activists returned home Thursday evening, more than 15 months after they were arrested in a coordinated police raid on 21 January 2019. https://clb.org.hk/content/well-known-labour-activists-detained-shenzhen-police
The families and associates of Wu Guijun, Zhang Zhiru, (...)
After a month in which there were virtually no worker protests in China because much of the country was on lockdown, workers are beginning to take collective action again. Many protests have been related to the economic distress caused by the covid-19 epidemic.
China Labour Bulletin’s Strike (...)
2018-07-28 Chuang: Unionists vs. the union - letters from the July 20th Incident in Pingshan, and Jasic Workers’ Petition. http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article45760
2018-08-10 Mimi Lau (SCMP): Chinese Maoists join students in fight for workers’ rights at Jasic Technology (with links (...)
This is a short summary of the “Jasic Movement,” the wave of repression that followed, and the debate among left-wing groups in China on the current state of class struggles and forms of labor support in China. It is followed by a list of selected articles on the “Jasic Movement” in English and (...)
Veteran labour activist Liu Shaoming is scheduled to be released from jail tomorrow (28 November) after serving a four and a half year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power" (2). He is being held in the northern Guangdong city of Shaoguan and is reportedly in reasonable health and (...)
An old man sitting on the bench. Image Credit: Flickr / timquijano
As part of research into the lives of first generation and long-term migrant workers[2], Globalization Monitor surveyed 651 workers about social insurance and plans for retirement[3]. The migrant workers were living and working (...)
Fu Changguo, staff member of the Dagongzhe Workers Centre in Shenzhen and partner of Worker Empowerment, has been summoned by the Pingshan District Public Security Sub-Bureau on 10 August 2018 in connection with the protest by the Jaisic workers and has been held incommunicado since then. (...)
The past few months have shown again how the Chinese state is dealing with dissent: since May [2019], security forces have arrested a dozen members of left-wing networks. All in all, more than 100 people have been detained or simply “disappeared” since mid-2018.
The starting point for the recent (...)
Collective protests by China’s workers are typically small-scale, spontaneous actions designed both to expose and resist employer abuses and violations of basic labour rights such as the non-payment of wages. The large-scale strikes and protests by factory workers that highlighted labour (...)
Friday 28 June marks the 100th day since labour activists Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing were detained by the authorities in Guangzhou. Along with their colleague Yang Zhengjun who was detained earlier, they are being held under “residential surveillance at a designated location” (指定居所监视居住) with (...)
Commentators ranging from academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky (1.1) and Slavoj Zizek (1.2) to some of the world’s top China labor scholars have hailed “the Jasic Conflagration” as an event of “historic significance” or even “the most important labor conflict to occur in China in the past (...)
In March 2019, a project called ‘996.ICU’ suddenly became a hot issue on GitHub, and subsequently sparked aroused attention on China’s social networks. ‘996’ means working from 9am to 9pm, and a week has 6 working days with this schedule; ‘ICU’ is the abbreviation of intensive care unit. Obviously, (...)
As the second piece in our series on “the Jasic affair,” the past year of state repression against young Maoists and related matters, we’ve translated an interview with two anonymous “participants in mainland labor struggles” from the second issue of the new Chinese journal Reignite (懷火). (0.1) The (...)
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