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Underpaid and exhausted: the human cost of your Kindle

19 mins | Jun 19, 2018
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Re-thinking work: Discover the shocking story behind your Amazon deliveries. Amazon deliveries can make you feel like your Kindle just appeared on your doorstep, but that is far from the truth. Gethin Chamberlain, writing in the Guardian, travels to the Chinese city of Hengyang to uncover the story of a fatigued, disposable workforce painfully assembling gadgets for Jeff Bezos’ empire.

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