Activists and a former victim of internment and forced labor sued the British government for failing to act on reports of forced labor in cotton supply chains. They lost the case, but say the wording of the judgment was an “important vindication” for persecuted Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities.
China’s health ministry announced that the number of critical COVID patients has already peaked, but official data has yet to mollify public concerns about the swell of anticipated infections over the Lunar New Year holiday.
China’s not doing badly by global standards, but women still make less money than their male colleagues and are still underrepresented in the workforce. Here’s a look at women at work in China for International Women’s Day.
In a bid to boost China’s declining birth rates, Beijing is adding reproductive technologies to public hospitals’ health insurance programs. Fertility firms are cashing in.
A surveillance system developed by a Shenzhen-based software firm can identify workers who are planning to quit by spying on their online activities. Outrage at the dystopian tool from Chinese social media users resulted in the firm taking down the product from its website.
With about 35% of the country’s workforce unemployed, South Africa’s Department of Labor is suing Chinese telecom giant Huawei for not hiring enough locals.
Chinese tech companies are notorious for their punishing work schedules that often mean 12 hours a day at the office, six days a week. Since 2019, there has been a growing clamor from tech staff to cut their work time, but it does not seem to have worked, judging from a new crowdsourced survey.
“It's difficult to perfectly coordinate carrots and sticks over the long haul. One of them ends up gumming up the other.” The scholar Manfred Elfstrom discusses the prevalence of labor strikes in China, and how the nominally worker-centered Communist Party both crushes organized activism and compromises in response to concerns.
Chinese factories are experiencing electricity shortages that will affect the world’s supply of everything from iPhones to Christmas lights. Now they can't find enough workers. Can robots help?
China’s 7 million food delivery drivers, classified as part of the gig economy, lack protection from the country’s labor laws. Their attempts to improve their working conditions have repeatedly been rebuffed.