Yes, there are labor rights abuses in China, but nowhere does it come close to slave labor.
"According to him “the workers can not earn more than 154 euros a month, so they need those extra hours.""
Tossing around numbers means nothing. Chinese is a middle income country. 154 euros per month works out to be roughly half of China's GDP per capita, which is a pretty reasonable number. No you aren't going to be getting your own apartment on that, but it is a lot higher than say working on a farm.
If anything, the developing world's outsourcing so much low-end factory work to China has resulted in more people getting out of poverty faster than ever before in history.
That's not to say there aren't plenty of violations, which should be corrected, but I would hardly consider these workers to be systematically exploited.
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I really dislike these hyperbolic titles.
Yes, there are labor rights abuses in China, but nowhere does it come close to slave labor.
"According to him “the workers can not earn more than 154 euros a month, so they need those extra hours.""
Tossing around numbers means nothing. Chinese is a middle income country. 154 euros per month works out to be roughly half of China's GDP per capita, which is a pretty reasonable number. No you aren't going to be getting your own apartment on that, but it is a lot higher than say working on a farm.
If anything, the developing world's outsourcing so much low-end factory work to China has resulted in more people getting out of poverty faster than ever before in history.
That's not to say there aren't plenty of violations, which should be corrected, but I would hardly consider these workers to be systematically exploited.