Reflation efforts, collapsing glaciers, gold poisoning, and the dark side of the moon: News round-up, May 20
Chuang posts round-ups of China-related news about twice a month.1 Image from Ign.com. Must… Reflate… China slowdown deepens provincial economic divide – FT.com “The rich provinces and regions — with higher household consumption — are proving more resilient,”...
The Barracks Are Cast of Iron: Working in a Chinese foam factory
By R. W. McMorrow. Reposted from Harper’s (7 May 2015). Photo by the author (via Harper’s): Workers napping while they wait for a load of foam to come out of the oven. —– On September 3, 2013, I arrived at a worker’s dormitory in Guangdong,...
Labour actions in the Pearl River Delta, 1st quarter of 2015: Images and analysis
Translated by Mihoutao from【2015年第一季度】珠三角劳工集体维权事件盘点及图文分析, by 锤子之声 (“Sound of the Hammer”) WeChat feed April 13 (reposted on Utopia here) —– Note from “Voice of the Hammer”: The content below is taken from Road’s (马路) post...
Migrant Mothers
A new video posted by Ground Breaking (破土). China has 260 million migrant workers. A third of these are women, and an uncounted number are mothers. Some have left their children behind in the countryside, while others struggle to raise their children on meager wages...
Green & Keynesian measures, labor shortage & wage hike in PRD, scapegoating in the year of the goat: News round-up, May 11
Photo by: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg Slowing down the slowdown – Government takes new measures to boost cooling economy China Adds Stimulus With Third Interest-Rate Cut in 6 Months – Bloomberg, 10 May ‘China’s central bank cut interest rates for the third time...
“In this way, our account drew on Jacques Camatte as much as TC to ask: How did Marxism become a theory of modernization? How did the theory of revolution against capitalism become a theory of how to carry out industrialization...” | @chuangcn interview w/ @endnotesjournal