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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] China--the rest of the story, from a rural viewpoint
  • Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:59:23 -0800

At 12/21/2004, you wrote:
Rural Exodus for Work Fractures Chinese Family
By JIM YARDLEY

Saipan is a in a common wealth of the United States. As such they can in many ways set their own laws such as minimum wage. There is very little on the island to exploit other than tourists. So what they have done is set the minimum wage to $3.05 an hour and invited in the garment sweat shops. Hundreds of women, mostly from mainland china come to Saipan to live in dilapidated barracks, work in conditions that even Dickens would find deplorable, all for $3.05 an hour with no overtime, minus room and board with no health coverage. So to help out at home they turn to the other huge industry, Japanese tourists.

Japanese men seem to look for places of easy sex and the local tourist board turns a blind eye to garment workers doing a little outside income. Just don't get caught if you are a woman, Men get sent back to the hotel but women get sent to jail then back home. And most of those women are married with a family back home and do this so they can get on the consumer goods wagon.

Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA http://www.braingarage.com






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