China Labour

Mr. Mo Desong worked for MCID (Maersk Container Industry Dongguan Ltd) for three years since 2006. He died on October 30, 2009, after falling ill nine months earlier. He was diagnosed as…

Globalization Monitor is continuing to monitor the situation at the Gold peak production sites. In April 2009, Gold Peak made public its decision to move the JetPower plant in Shenzhen to…

December 8, 2009 In the morning, workers were dissatisfied with their company’s long-standing practice of differential treatment--older employees’ base pay is only 33 yuan / day, while the…

This report is against this background that the China-Africa Summit of November 2006 and China’s renewed interest in Africa have to be understood. China is essentially interested in natural resources and raw materials and offers investments in roads, railways and infrastructure. The deals concluded during the China-Africa summit are worth US$ 1,9 billion and include an aluminium plant in Egypt; a highway in Nigeria; a rural telephone network in Ghana; a copper project in Zambia and a ferrochrome smelter in South Africa.The proposal to undertake a study on Chinese investments in Africa from a labour perspective emerged during a workshop of trade union leaders and union educators in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November 2006.