Daily assignment could be finished within 12.5 hours and the factory doesn t pay the workers beyond 12.5 hours. For example, a Farberware can opener production line is composed of 23 workers with a daily assignment of 1400 pieces. In both cases, there is no additional overtime pay. Three times refusing to work overtime leads to firing. A very small dormitory houses 16 workers.
Workers sleep in bunks.
There is one bathroom for all of them. Room and board are deducted from wages. Some workers only eat two meals to save money. Sometimes because of the deductions and heavy fines, workers may owe money to the factory after a month. Workers receive their first month s pay after they have worked 75 days.