by Ray Langley

Created on: April 14, 2010

What is the Responsibility of American Companies and Consumers for Unsate Working Conditions in Chinese Factories?

 For a civilization that spans across three thousand years, one cannot simply jump to the conclusion that any single force or being can correct the path of Chinese development. With the Chinese being over 19.62% of the total world population (as of 04-08-2010 per. Wikipedia -wikipedia.org), the accounts of unsafe working conditions have to be statistically relevant to the total number of Chinese in the work force, yet many articles and reports refer to the number of Chinese exposed to Unsafe Conditions, more then the actual percent. The value of any society is within its people and for the Chinese culture the ideals of honor and self-sacrifice, which kept them whole for thousands of years, is suddenly changing.

 Traditionally, restrictions imposed by the Chinese have kept most of the world at an arms length, allowing only momentary glimpses into the ancient culture that saw birth to the world. As that world changes, the Chinese cultural veil has become smaller, and the broader views have led to shocking discovers, of what over population and the attempts to control such, are doing to the Chinese people. A nearly Orwellian culture of strict behavioral controls, which includes breeding, corporal punishment and fines charged for misappropriate actions, or attitudes are nearly unbreakable because of the mass number of people desperate for any paying job. The Government agencies that monitor the factories are simply overwhelmed and ineffectual.

 With 19 million Chinese reported out of work, the commercial industry of China takes more of a responsibility for the workers, some who travel hundreds of miles, by providing workers with dorms that some equate to shantytowns. The political and social turmoil that fell upon China for the last century still bubbles quietly beneath the surface as The People’s Republic of China (communist) and the Republic of China (Democratic) struggle with which party is the true government. Divisions that create plenty of cracks for the working class of China to fall into, disappear, and then replaced by another willing worker.

 The limitation of Western influence is in the reality of China, and over population,  as we are a growing world, China’s problem is a global problem. Pollution, clean water, basic care, and housing are all issues that are out of reach in the overwhelmingly xenophobic

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