Chinese Workers Strike at Honda: A New Beginning?

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According to experts, "The China model" had relied on partial economic liberalization but limited civil liberties. There was considerable emphasis on massive foreign investment inflows with their underlying transfer of technology...

There were reports of increasing radical political activity unfolding in China. For instance, in a Beijing suburb, a Labor Art Troup showed a snap of a Foxconn worker just after his fall to death. The meeting had poems being read to remember the hard lives of the migrant workers in electronics factories and construction areas...

Implications of the Strikes Experts like Arthur Kroeber felt that "Foreign investors have been lulled into a false sense of security that China has a docile work force. There's nothing intrinsically docile about the Chinese labor force... Within Distance of the Right to Strike? Experts like Crothall held that strikes were a grey area in China. They commented that though there was officially no right to strike in the Chinese constitution since 1982, it was also not entirely illegal to strike. Thus, strikes were not illegal or completely legal...

Exhibit I: Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Exhibit II: Tiananmen Square
Exhibit III: A Timeline of the Strike at Foshan Honda
Exhibit IV: Timeline of Strikes in China (2010)

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