Sweatshops were a horrible part of Chinas economy from the 70s under Deng, to around the late 2000s.
That’s how China built their manufacturing sectors. They enticed western capitalists into building in China so that they could exploit the dirt cheap labor, which lead to horrific exploitation and near slavery level conditions for most workers who lived in abject poverty while working 12-16 hours a day.
It was a depressing gamble that paid off. It’s things like that that make Deng a controversial figure. His gamble paid off, but at a steep price for the 3-4 decades it took China to get on its feet.
I’m aware of Deng’s gamble and that almost of China’s sweatshops disappeared in the 1990’s, and how capitalists were “tricked” into financing China.
I read that even in the heyday of the sweatshop era, China’s sweatshops still paid much better and had shorter working hours and better conditions and labor rights than other countries of similar economic measures and standings, but of course, I’d expect that of a country with a socialist government, and sweatshops are always horrific, even comparatively.
Sweatshops were a horrible part of Chinas economy from the 70s under Deng, to around the late 2000s.
That’s how China built their manufacturing sectors. They enticed western capitalists into building in China so that they could exploit the dirt cheap labor, which lead to horrific exploitation and near slavery level conditions for most workers who lived in abject poverty while working 12-16 hours a day.
It was a depressing gamble that paid off. It’s things like that that make Deng a controversial figure. His gamble paid off, but at a steep price for the 3-4 decades it took China to get on its feet.
I’m aware of Deng’s gamble and that almost of China’s sweatshops disappeared in the 1990’s, and how capitalists were “tricked” into financing China.
I read that even in the heyday of the sweatshop era, China’s sweatshops still paid much better and had shorter working hours and better conditions and labor rights than other countries of similar economic measures and standings, but of course, I’d expect that of a country with a socialist government, and sweatshops are always horrific, even comparatively.
The past decades have been phenomenal.