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Can anybody guess in what nation the writer of the following lives? “People who work here have to work 15 hours a day without Saturday, Sunday break and any holidays. Otherwise, they will suffer torture, beatings and rude remarks. Nearly no payment (10 yuan/1 month).” That translates to about $1.61 a month.

If you guessed China, you got it right. The beatings, the torture, the horrible wages, they’re all on behalf of Apple, Microsoft, Nike and hundreds of other US corporations. Many of these corporations are from other nations.

Don’t let anybody fool you. The Chinese are suffering under their communist/corporate masters. They’re not living in some middle class nirvana, at least not most of them.

Click the link below for the complete story.

http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/letter-chinese-laborer-pleading-help-found-halloween-decorations-202400773.html

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(Reuters) – In the eight years since Zhang Shuxiang first left her village in the poor interior of central China, she worked in 20 factories before coming to the assembly line of a Foxconn plant making products for tech firms including Apple. She wants it to be her last.

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