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Migrants start to move back inland

Factory closures and rising unemployment are forcing increasing numbers of migrant workers to return home. In response, some of China’s traditional labour exporting regions are now helping migrant workers find employment locally and providing them with incentives to open new businesses. Photograph by monkeyking@ flickr.com

Those Left Behind

There are 110 million migrant workers in China aged between 16 and 40 years old. They left home in the hope of building a better life for themselves and their family, yet when they start a family of their own, they are faced with a stark choice; either take their children to the cities and subject them to institutionalized discrimination, or leave them behind in the countryside in the uncert

From Shanxi to Dongguan, slave labour is still in business

One year after the Shanxi brickyard slave labour scandal, many reportedly freed slaves have not yet returned home, others are forced to beg for a living, officials who failed in their duty of care are still on the job, and the slave traffickers and slave factories are still in business.

ACFTU must back Migrant Worker Legislators

On Wednesday, 5 March 2008, three migrant workers entered the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as deputies to this year's National People's Congress (NPC). China's official media hailed the "election" of these deputies as a "symbolic and significant" development.

Reuters: China migrant labourers learn the law to win rights

China Labour Bulletin appears in this article. Copyright remains with the original publisher Sunday March 2 2008 By John Ruwitch and Lindsay Beck

International Herald Tribune: Class of '77 has withstood the test of time in China

China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher. December 23, 2007 By David Lague

Reform of State-owned enterprises in China

Prior to China’s economic reforms of the late 1970s, the central government in Beijing exerted strict controls over the economy, all enterprises were publicly owned and managed, and all staff deployed according to the political and economic interests of the state. Enterprises were required to submit profits to the central government, and workers’ salaries were determined by the state.

Regulations urge police to handle mass protests with care

CLB has translated in full a set of internal regulations issued by the Ministry of Public Security that provide detailed guidelines for local police in handling the increasing number of public protests, known as "collective incidents," by citizens across China.

Regulations urge police to respect workers' rights and handle protests with care

Workers' deaths cast shadow over political celebrations in Beijing

At least 54 workers died in two separate incidents at unlicensed factories at the weekend following the conclusion of China's17th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. The two incidents, both report . . .

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