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Why Chinese Factory Workers Don’t Covet Your iPad

August 15, 2013Global Politics

Leslie T. Chang spent two years interviewing workers for her book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Chang thinks Westerns who feel guilty about buying the electronics these Chinese workers assemble are missing the point.

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