China’s Youth Meet Microsoft
KYE Factory in China Produces for Microsoft and other U.S. Companies
"We are like prisoners… We do not have a life, only work."
-Teenaged Microsoft Worker
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface by an anonymous Chinese labor rights activist and scholar
Executive Summary
Introduction by Charles Kernaghan
"Young, Exhausted & Disposable: Teenagers Producing for Microsoft"
- Company Profile: KYE Systems Corp
- A Day in the Life of a young Microsoft worker
- Microsoft Workers’ Shift
- Military-like Discipline
- KYE Recruits up to 1,000 Teenaged “Work Study” Students
- Company Dorms
- Factory Cafeteria Food
- China’s Factory Workers Trapped with no Exit
- State and Corporate Factory Audits a Complete Failure
- Wages—below subsistence level
- Hours
- Is there a Union at the KYE factory?
- The Six S’s
- Postscript
- Company contacts
Addenda:
Import record of Micorsoft mice from KYE
Import record of Microsoft camera from KYE
Import record of XBOX hardware from KYE
China’s Youth Meet Microsoft – The National Labor Committee
Tags: china, free trade, slavery/globalism