When Liu Liping gets paid this month, everything will look different. From now on, the 24-year-old assembly line worker at Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract maker, will earn Rmb2,000 ($301) a month, more than double her base salary six months ago.
The big pay rise epitomises changes across the Chinese economy that are also affecting the way the global manufacturing value chain works.
Following a spate of strikes and other labour problems in factories this spring and summer, the raw capitalism at the heart of the country’s manufacturing machine is hitting its limits.
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