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China: Exploitation in Summer Holiday

Written byOiwan Lam
Posted 30 August 2007 5:25 GMT

Tan Weishan reported the exploitation of student workers by a shoe factory in Dongguan. More than a hundred secondary school kids spent their summer holiday working 12 hours a day with RMB$3 (US$0.4) per hour (zh).

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