The China Labor Bulletin's Geoffrey Crothall says the main legacy of the strikes is the media attention outside of China.

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Geoffrey Crothall of the Hong-Kong based China Labor Bulletin says the strikes are tolerated because they are private disputes between factory workers and factory bosses.

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"They wake up, they have breakfast, they go to work, they work a solid shift, they come back to their dormitories and they sleep ... it's a very dehumanizing place, and the workers are little more than machines there, " said Geoffrey Crothall of the China Labor Bulletin, a non-profit group that tries to protect workers' rights across China.

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