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Inside special economic zones in Cambodia, China - labour abuses rampant
Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don't Apply, 25 July 2016
“Any country that didn’t have [an SEZ] 10 years ago either does now or seems to be planning one,” the World Bank’s Thomas Farole told The Economist in 2015. But while the success of such zones is often gauged by how much foreign money they attract, or how much economic growth they generate, the voices of the millions of workers that power these spaces are seldom heard. This is the story of SEZs from workers’ perspectives...