We can see the value added of that Chinese worker on the Foxconn line in this paper here.
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Chinese worker Lu Shaoqing, who is helping to build sports stadiums in Angola, says he left his wife and seven-year-old daughter in Beijing for a number of reasons.
Yet while the question of returning the Dunhuang treasures has arisen several times - the Chinese Worker's Daily carried a campaign for their return several years ago - Chinese authorities have never formally brought up the issue of the Dunhuang treasures.
And in that stuff he got right we can see the answer to this little conundrum: why Silicon Valley interns are getting, for three months work, about what a Chinese manufacturing worker gets in two years.
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In the next few years, wage and benefits will increase 15% to 20% per worker at the average Chinese factory, according to the research.
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On a sunny afternoon on the Chinese side of the river, retired factory worker Liu Weibao takes in a music performance in a riverside park.
Brands and McDonald's, agreed to worker representation in 2007 after being slammed in the Chinese press for breaking the law in their payment of students (the charges turned out to be false).
The arbitrage between Chinese and American wages that became possible in 1979 is only now becoming apparent to every factory worker.
To combat rising costs and worker attrition, Hon Hai has been moving its factories inland, away from the more expensive Chinese coastline.
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In expensive Guangdong, for instance, a worker's earnings would not support half a family, but many workers come from the Chinese interior and back home they would.
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