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If workers have to put in 60 hours or more per week just to get by, then I think the answer to your question should be pretty obvious.
If you zoom in on the grey building, you can see the infamous "suicide nets" that were installed to prevent workers from throwing themselves off the roof, in addition to barbed-wire fencing around the roof's perimeter.
http://www.economist.com/node/16231588
What part of "The low wages force laborers to work overtime, to the point where overtime hours make up 40 percent of their gross income, in order to cover living expenses" isn't clear to you?
Furthermore, if they need a scooter to get to and from their 60 hour-plus per week job, then it's pretty essential to their livelihood they have it, yes?
As an aside, one can't help being struck by the resemblance between that workplace and a prison.
It would appear then the suicide nets are having their intended effect...
Hell, how many liberals working in The Stranger's building right now have iPhones? I bet it is more than a few. Liberal or conservative, the love for the iPhone is simply stronger than the supposed love for fellow humans and workers.
Ansel certainly has his problems as a journalist, but if workers are indeed putting in an average of (over) 60 hours per week, your "they're saving up to buy boats and jewels and other luxuries" just doesn't hold water.
He's simply paraphrasing the results of the study to which he linked, which you would know if you had read it. So it would appear, in this particular instance at least, he's more informed than you are.
That's not the relevant point here. Working discretionary OT because you want extra money to buy luxury goods =/= working (frequently mandatory) OT because you need the extra money to pay for basic necessities.
Oh look, it was indeed FoxConn: http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-job…
But it's pretty sad if you have to go to the comments section to get the context that should be in a story.
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ibtimes.com/anonymous-masks-photo-stirs-…
See @9...
I don't think you've understood the argument I've made about averages. If the report said some workers were putting in 60 hours, you might have a point, but the report says all of them are, and you don't.
Your first link is beyond my considerable powers to reanimate.