In Chinese Factories, Lost Fingers and Low Pay
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Worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies, according to labor rights groups.
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Thousands of workers are not being paid the national minimum wage, a survey by the TUC has found.
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Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods, as well as the beginning of Chinaâs rise from the lowest rungs of global manufacturing.
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The company resolves a patent dispute with China's Semiconductor Manufacturing. But it's not enough.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 3--BEIJING -- In the office after hours, the Chinese economic miracle didn't feel much like magic.   Spent cups of instant noodles lay in the trash can. Cubicles were empty for the night.
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Colliery accidents in China killed  5,286 miners in the first 11 months of the year, but the  government cast the figure in a positive light, saying it was  at an all-time low relative to production.
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A thousand children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media has claimed amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.
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Workers losing their jobs at a County Londonderry computer company are to hear details of redundancy terms.
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Al Losey, a corporate trainer at a  Detroit auto parts maker, lost his job six weeks ago in what  could be another down-and-out story from a hard luck corner of  the American economy.
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Chinese industrial output slows in October, the latest evidence that its booming economy is being reined in.
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By Howard W. French  When Zhang Feifei lost her job in this booming Chinese factory town, she was not terribly concerned. Jobs had always been plentiful in Shenzhen's red-hot economy.
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Unrest hits output; workers fight plan to slash 12,000 positions, say losses due to mismanagement.
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A pair of accidents that killed more than 300 miners has underscored the human price China pays for its booming economy and ravenous appetite for coal, an industry that's seen more than 4,500 workers killed on the job this year.
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China passed a new contract labor law on Friday in a bid to improve basic worker rights amid widespread complaints of unpaid wages, forced labor and other abuses, state media said Friday.
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China has punished dozens of officials for allowing slave-like exploitation of workers and children in brick kilns, but announced criminal investigations against only six.
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SHANGHAI -- Sun Xiaoqing, owner of the Fenghua Hengsheng Knitting Factory, isn't quite sure what deadbeat mortgage holders in the United States have to do with his exporting business, but he knows it's bad.
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As many as 1,000 children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media said on Friday amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.