Éditorial

The wave of strikes that hit Taiwanese and Japanese companies in Guangdong Province in June 2010 demonstrated to the world that Chinese workers are no longer the docile labour force of “the world’s workshop.” Braving the hostility of corporate management and the official Chinese trade union, they showed that they are now capable of organising themselves to demand salary increases and better working conditions. The fact that the strikes produced concrete results for the workers without massive..