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I have been receiving a Yahoo newsgroup letter from CLW for over a month. During that time I have received two letters detailing labor abuses committed in Chinese factories that serve as suppliers to Foxconn. corp and Adidas. corp. Their website contains dozens of further investigative reports that have been compiled over the course of the organization's eight years regarding the many prominent multinational corporations that contract out to the sweat shops of China, all of them highly critical of the multinationals for their contractual involvement with these suppliers. CLW does a very commendable job of giving very exact and thorough details of worker hours/salary, living conditions in factory dorms, and the nature of the petty fines that are levied against workers for not meeting job criteria, etc.. There is a problem though, in my opinion, with CLW's slant. Virtually all of these factories are either operated and managed by Taiwanese firms or are S.E.O.s. Yet, in perusing their website one never reads a word about these Taiwanese firms involvement or the fact that is the Chinese government itself that is responsible for instituting and enforcing the abominable working conditions of these factories. Rather, their angst seems entirely focused on the multinationals. It is a fact, of course, that the multinationals take advantage of the situation in these huge factories that they contract to supply them with the bountiful, cheap labor which produces their goods. However, it is highly unlikely that they are the ones who are propagating the astringent labor practices found on the floors of these factories. Indeed, these abominable labor practices have their origin in only one place; in the mentality of the Chinese/Taiwanese management that runs these sweat shops. It is inconceivable to me that the multinationals, as "nefarious" as they may be, are actually mandating the management practices of these factories. They may come to the Chinese management of these sweat shops with a very sharp pencil about how much they will pay, but in the end it is the Chinese/Taiwanese management that is culpable for this worker exploitation, and I think it is safe to say that top officials of these companies are not financially or emotionally suffering for their involvement with the western multinationals, only their employees. CLW is not in complete integrity with the truth.

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Citations/Sources

I have some concerns that this article is based primarily on sources provided by China Labor Watch's own website, and is almost completely devoid of inline citation. The Time article provided only shows a preview, and the BBC site is in Chinese and does not seem to provide a translation. I think that this article would be vastly improved with some more secondary sources. 74.93.182.21 (talk) 14:53, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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