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Article

22 Dec 2004

Author:
Richard Spencer, Telegraph [UK]

Unseasonal strife in Santa's little sweatshops [China]

As China's manufacturing has taken off, its workers have endured long hours and sometimes dangerous working conditions for pay that appears negligible...labour disturbances are part of a growing wave of social unrest in China...[refers to Halsall, Clarks, Nike, Timberland, New-Ray, Stella]