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  • Essay / Poverty of Chinese toy workers - 735

    About 75 percent of the world's toys come from China, where migrant workers are paid an average of $240 a month. Extreme poverty in rural areas in China pushes people to migrate to urban areas in search of such employment. Michael Wolf, a German photographer, documented what he called The Real Toy Story, which describes the lives of workers who make toys for the world. Michael Wolf's photos depict China's grueling toy factories. The photographer visited 5 factories in China, mainland China. In the factories, the workforce is mainly migrant. The following research paper critically examines the returns from Michael Wolf's analysis in relation to global capitalism, commodity chains, and manufacturing. Migrant labor is the result of the Chinese government issuing strict controls and regulations regarding migration between rural areas. and urban areas. As a result, most people migrated illegally to cities in search of work. These regulations were associated with the hook system in which the government tied social rights such as education, housing, and health to place of birth. However, as the country's economy transformed into a market economy, cheap rural areas; work has become essential and essential to achieve economic growth. Even though the Chinese government promised equal rights for all, most migrant workers continued to work under very poor working conditions, such as forced overtime, needless to say, they did not even have no employment contract or social security benefits. (Carter, 2007) In the workplace, living and working conditions are extremely poor. There are up to 6AuthorLastName3people sharing very small and cramped dormitories and...... middle of paper ...... prior introduction to the nature of the world's labor laws, industrial relations system and the union structure. Given the atrocity of the problems facing the industrial relations system and the union structure, workers themselves are usually involved in shaping their own destiny. When it comes to solidarity, some people might not be completely convinced that even the Wolf's optimism is justified. Building a stronger labor movement, however, begins with an extremely precise and concise understanding of conditions as they currently are, and a vision of exactly what we would like them to be. Therefore, in both respects, the analyzes succeed as well as the current condition of the thousands and millions of workers around the world who have contributed greatly to the tripling of the world's working population over the past decades and centuries...