ARTICLE: "Workers Get Power, Bosses Get Worried: A new Chinese labor law could prove costly for businesses," by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 21-27 April 2008, p. 18.
China wants to move up the production ladder and wants its labor to make more money to cover the aging demographics, but timing is everything.
Turns out workers are working on their own definition of a proper trajectory. The beginning of the end of China as the world's factory floor?
Of course. This is the hope of interior China and the rest of the Gap: China will export the low-end stuff. The abuse of cheap labor will go some place where it's more welcomed by the local workforce—for a while that is ...