{"id":7118,"date":"2009-03-10T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7118"},"modified":"2009-03-10T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T15:39:10","slug":"china-we-feel-like-we-are-serving-prison-sentences-say-factory-workers-for-hewlett-packard-dell-lenovo-microsoft-and-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7118","title":{"rendered":"China: `We feel like we are serving prison sentences&#8217;, say factory workers for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft and IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/links.org.au\/node\/939\">By <strong>Charles Kernaghan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[This is an excerpt from the introduction and executive summary of a report released by the National Labor Committee in February 2009, <em>High Tech Misery in China: The Dehumanization of Young Workers Producing Our Computer Keyboards<\/em>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlcnet.org\/admin\/media\/document\/China\/2009_meitai\/HIGHTECH_MISERY_CHINA_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full report in PDF format<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tools we\u2019ve ever created. They\u2019re tools of communication, they\u2019re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user&#8230;The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.\u201d<\/em> &#8212; Bill Gates<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We feel like we are serving prison sentences.\u201d<\/em> &#8212; factory worker making Microsoft keyboards<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The new assembly line: Making computer keyboards and other peripherals for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft and IBM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/links.org.au\/node\/939\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Charles Kernaghan [This is an excerpt from the introduction and executive summary of a report released by the National Labor Committee in February 2009, High Tech Misery in China: The Dehumanization of Young Workers Producing Our Computer Keyboards. Click &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1QO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}