Shocking! — 12 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Leslie Chang, an ivy league-educated Chinese-American correspondent for Wall Street Journal, doesn’t tell us anything we haven’t already read in countless media reports about China’s notoriously cruel sweatshop conditions. But the publication of Factory Girls coincidentally coincided with the 2008 accusations against Toyota’s human trafficking and the 2009 reports of Apple’s “sweatshop suicides,” turning Chang into a best-selling author. 3 years later, however, conditions have yet to improve in China’s factories, and western consumers still continue without a care to buy electronic gadgets made by Chinese children, rendering Chang’s book moot.