barely cover essential needs Some people work for as little as 1 cent per hour often more than 100 hours per week in conditions of poor air quality and extreme heat. In the United States is currently at 10.00 dollars, while it is 1.48 dollars in Thailand, 69 cents in the Philippines, and 67 cents in China workers are frequently paid less than these estimates suggest amounts barely enough to survive on even considering the lower cost of living in these regions. in china they have a number of horrible sweatshops And they fined them up to $1 for infractions such as taking too long in the bathroom. Liu left the factory for good in December, after he and about 60 other workers descended on the local labor office to protest Chun Si's latest offenses: requiring cash payments for dinner and a phony factory it set up to dupe Wal-Mart's auditors. In his pocket was a total of $6 for three months of 90-hour weeks--an average of about one-half cent an hour More than 100 million rural Chinese have now moved to cities - the biggest movement of people in human history.
More than half of them have ended up here in the southern province of Guangdong. They accept jobs with long hours and low pay because back home there's often no work at all.
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