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jonhendry | karma 1781 | avg karma 1.64 · 2012-03-16 20:54:06+00:00

"It's not an anti-apple movement its a fair and humane electronics manufacturing labor movement."

China's labor problems aren't limited to their electronics factories.

baconner | karma 802 | avg karma 2.93 · 2012-03-16 23:44:42

Fair point, but electronics has been the recent center of it. There's long been an overall fair labor movement no?

jonhendry | karma 1781 | avg karma 1.64 · 2012-03-17 00:16:32

Not sure how much that has reached into China. And industries like coal mining in China desperately need worker protections, but Western consumer purchases are unlikely to have any way to cause that.