1. The Exploitation of Sweat Shops
... , since 1995 there have been 30 fires with 17 cases involving casualties. But there was another instance of such disregard for human life on May 10th 1993 in a garment factory near the outskirts of Bangkok that Greider has dubbed "the worst industrial fire in the history of capitalism." (Greider p.337) With approximately 188 dead and 469 injured the factory was reduced to rubble. These ... workers rights were somehow synonymous to revolutionary. Guo Yunguo is probably the best example of what happens to labour activists in China. He was sentenced to death in 1989 on charges of "hooligani...
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