Inside the Dragon – Chinese Cheap Labor


Something of a scene from the other side. 70% of the world’s umbrellas are made in China. 60% of the world’s buttons are made in China. 72% of US shoes are made in China. 50% of US kitchen supplies are made in China. 85% of US artificial Christmas trees are made in China. 80% of US toys are made in China. 9% of Chinese goods sent to the US end up on Wal-mart’s shelves. 100% of the unsafe toys recalled in the US in 1007, including Thomas the Tank Engine, were made in China. 6 = The number of months it would take for a Chinese factory worker to earn the cost of a Thomas the Tank Engine train set. It amazingly wicked how everything adds up and how so few see how it adds up. Who gains and who loses, it’s pretty safe to who that may be. Check out the new blog – “Bokuwa Rurouni” kazandling@blogspot.com Peace.

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23 Responses to “Inside the Dragon – Chinese Cheap Labor”

  1. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 4:39 am

    P.S. The next time I return to Guangdong, I would love to take up the opportunity to see your factory. Trust me when I say that I wish you treat your employees well in China, and I would love to show a story depicting that (I had the opportunity to do so once in the Maquilladoras in Mexico – though it was a jewel among a great many other horror stories). Either way, thank you for your comments again.

    Peace.

  2. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 4:41 am

    Granted, labor is making demands in more affluent regions like Guangdong, there are few concessions made, but as labor costs go up, so to will the moving of multinationals from rich coastal areas to the poor and labor-lawless interior provinces (hell, they might even leave the country for places like Bangladesh or what have you).

    Thank you for your comment.

    Peace.

  3. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 5:16 am

    I just returned from two years in Foshan among a multiple more throughout China. Does your statement accurately represent the reality of all labor in China? If you think so, I suggest you venture into Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Henan, Guanxi or Yunnan (among a great many other place… places that I have been to.

    cont.

  4. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 5:36 am

    @theboyfrommiddlesbro How much do you pay your workers, and comparably, how much wyould you be reuired to pay workers in the U.K. for the same amount of labor? Furthermore, how many more labor protections do U.K. workers have as compared to your very own? In the U.K. “guanxi” has very little to do with running businesses with regard to following rules and adhering to government regulation, how does it benefit you in China?

    Cont.

  5. theboyfrommiddlesbro says:
    June 3, 2010 at 5:36 am

    One gaping hole in the video is the statement regarding a lack of labour law. As of 1st January 2008 there have been very stringent labour laws in China supported in full force by Beijing. Evironmental laws are now equally everpresent. Gordon Styles, Star Prototype China Limited

  6. theboyfrommiddlesbro says:
    June 3, 2010 at 5:44 am

    I am a British Engineer and have owned my own factory in Zhongshan China for 5 years. I would like to invite the author to visit my factory to bring some balance to this video. The purpose of this video is unclear. But it certainly does not shed any light on cheap labour in China. I have seen the entire range of China, from heartbreaking poverty to the greatest oppulance on the planet. This video does is not a balanced representation of the China that I know.

  7. TheMightyGuri says:
    June 3, 2010 at 5:59 am

    @shinekumar73

    thats because chinas government is a tolitarian regime and not one percent socialist… its FAKE COMMUNISM!!

  8. shinekumar73 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 6:12 am

    sad truth :All these factories(malignant tumors of Capitalist Cancer) were running in a Communist ruled country.

  9. 55ella2007k says:
    June 3, 2010 at 7:08 am

    Excellent video! I just came across your channel via jakluk4. You’ve just gained yourself a new subscriber. I’m very glad to see that somebody is seeing the much larger picture regarding corporations and the quest for cheap labor. I have said this many times before in my own vids. Faved and subbed !!!

  10. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 7:24 am

    Thank you Anita :)

    Got much more coming up.

    Peace.

  11. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 8:11 am

    Thank you much.

    Peace.

  12. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 8:42 am

    I’ll have to see if I can find that Walmart clip :P

    Peace again.

  13. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 9:16 am

    Thank you ever so much for the comment.

    Peace.

  14. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 9:58 am

    You are quite sharp indeed. Stay tuned, some of the things that you described allude to a couple of vid-projects I am working on. However, I don’t think I could have summarized it as eloquently as you. You are very right in noticing that China walks a very tight rope. Thanks for the comment again.

    Peace.

  15. KazukiSeirei says:
    June 3, 2010 at 10:47 am

    NP, thanks for the comment.

    Peace.

  16. MDYC11 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 11:27 am

    Thanks for sharing this information

    5*****

  17. northpal2 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    Damn I’d make a great dictator.
    I knew I shouldn’t have refuse that dinner invitation to the Council on Foreign Relations

  18. northpal2 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    This is where in my and many others opinion the C02 tax scam comes in to play. The rulers can skim western wealth (while there is some left) and disperse it around the world to create more consumers for cheap goods. As that dissipates the masses are gradually reduced to the same level. Then a population reduction along with say a world philosophy (religion)
    No nation will be self sufficient but rather interdependent.
    And boom the whole world is under the control of a centralized elite.

  19. northpal2 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    They have a delicate balancing act to keep the thing going or face a unstable nation of 1.5 billion people. Remember though we say China, it is not a true homogenized nation like say Japan. Therefore any serious economic stumble it will take a very rigid government to prevent fracturing.
    Therefore, no, China is in no position to pull the world out of economic crisis since they are always a step away themselves.

  20. northpal2 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    excellent
    wow 1.5 billion people
    but really appreciate the dilemma of these poor souls. The were from villages in the country side now herded in the cities and factories. thats the only employment. There are no alternatives, they cannot go back to the villages, they can no longer sustain them. 45 million new workers every year, puts pressure on the gov to employ them and the workers to keep the little they do have.
    China is now at the mercy of multi-national corporations in a big way.

  21. EdT586 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    Quality Socialist goods for all the world !

    Not only will China pull the world out of the economic crisis, she will pull the “real” world out of poverty !

  22. DynaCatlovesme says:
    June 3, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    Great video!

  23. imjustagirl776 says:
    June 3, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Yet another amazing installment, K.

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