Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

The Hartford Courant recently had an article about labor in China.
There are school aged girls living in dormitories at some places.
The work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and expect to get paid $100 a
YEAR. Some are considered apprentices and don't get any pay for the
first few months.

Hard to compare apples and oranges. US dollar amounts are unimportant;
what *is* important is what can be purchased with the money.

Now, even in the PRC, $100 a year isn't a munificent sum but they have
their bed and board, probably health care too, so the cash earned is
walking around money.

As far as teenagers working long hours, hasn't been all that long since
the same thing was also common in the US (still is here and there) and
it won't be too long before it is uncommon in the PRC.

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