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Re:Jack Ma defends overtime work culture as 'huge blessing' by indemnity on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:06AM (#19663643)
I’m certainly glad my ancestors put in the hours, but I don’t exactly want to work 14-16 hours a day like they did in the Industrial Revolution.

China has so much excess labour though, compared to the leverage Western workers had back in the day due to lower numbers.

That with Party control leaves it hard to see how anything like unions could form, or someone like a Sam Parnell could emerge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Duncan_Parnell).

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