China's struggling job market is pushing a growing number of workers toward an enormous gig economy. The episode cites projections that China's gig workforce could reach 320 million people, equivalent ...

Hundreds of millions of blue-collar workers were the backbone of China’s astounding economic rise through the 1990s and 2000s, enabling the country to post year after year of double-digit economic ...

A deadly fire that claimed at least 28 lives at a shoe factory in southeastern China underscores the country’s continued reliance on manufacturing—and the danger of that work, even as the country ...

China’s second-in-command Li Qiang had a self-deprecating response when confronted with criticism from a top European Union official that Beijing’s government subsidies played a role in contributing ...

The biggest workforce in the world has undergone an extraordinary transformation. China’s farm labourers and industrial proletariat have been joined by an army of gig workers. Tens of millions now use ...

Literature by the working class has a long history in China. Under Mao Zedong, the state held up workers and peasants as the ...