This year's Cannes Film Festival features an unusually robust selection of documentaries, two in the Main Competition alone, where nonfiction films almost never appear. And if the ones that have ...

A student group in Hong Kong recently published a blistering report about conditions at several Dell suppliers in China. The report, “The Manufacturing of Sweatshop Computers: Behind the ...

It's a new twist on globalization: For decades, Chinese made their way to the West, often illegally, to end up doing dangerous, low-paying jobs in sweatshop conditions. Now some foreigners drawn by ...

China’s factories no longer need lights. That’s not a metaphor. Western executives visiting Chinese industrial zones now describe “dark factories” where robots work around the clock without a single ...

Digital Journal — Apple has launched an investigation into charges that some overseas iPod factories are sweatshops where employees work 15 hour days for as little as $50 a week. The allegation ...